A239 crash in Merton on 25 April 2022 at 14:45 involving a Lexmoto Titan motorcycle
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Apr 2022
- Monday, 14:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto Titan and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39956, longitude -0.16603, in the CR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Merton. It is one of the crashes that make up the Figge's Marsh, Merton, CR4 2PA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010372732
- Council area
- Merton
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 239
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 January 2025.
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A239 in Merton, 21 January 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010556215
Slight
Toyota Yaris crash on the A239 in Merton, 17 October 2018
4 m awayRef 2018010139685
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A239 in Merton, 15 May 2017
4 m awayRef 2017010037409
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A239 in Merton, 29 September 2005
6 m awayRef 200501VW40334
Serious
Ford Capri crash on the A239 in Merton, 10 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401ZM00308
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on an unclassified road in Merton, 11 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199501ZM00469
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Titan
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Titan)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022010372732 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Merton road accident statistics for 2022.