Serious C road crash in Bexley DA15 on 12 January 2022 at 20:27 involving a Ford Focus
A motorcycle and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 20:27 on Wednesday 12 January 2022. The 64-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jan 2022
- Wednesday, 20:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4424, longitude 0.0968, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackfen & Lamorbey, Bexley, DA15 8JR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010354360
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 September 2000.
Slight
Honda C90 crash on a C road in Bexley, 17 September 2000
4 m awayRef 200001RY00543
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on a C road in Bexley, 13 October 2002
4 m awayRef 200201RY00636
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on a C road in Bexley, 13 January 2007
4 m awayRef 200701RY10068
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 2 September 1983
18 m awayRef 1983010RY0628
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 March 1995
38 m awayRef 199501RY00158
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 August 1987
40 m awayRef 198701RY00586
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 680 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 64, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2022010354360 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 2022.