A2 crash in Bexley on 26 June 2025 at 14:40 involving a Kawasaki ER motorcycle
A Kawasaki ER motorcycle and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on the A2 in Bexley at 14:40 on Thursday 26 June 2025. The 22-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki ER motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Thursday, 14:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki ER and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4531, longitude 0.09963, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 2NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010583050
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Bexley, 12 October 1984
6 m awayRef 198401RY00798
Serious
Yamaha YP crash on the A2 in Bexley, 7 September 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010398043
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the A2 in Bexley, 25 October 1996
17 m awayRef 199601RY00704
Slight
Ford Kuga crash on the A2 in Bexley, 15 February 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010559389
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Bexley, 7 August 2009
20 m awayRef 200901RY10353
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A2 in Bexley, 20 December 2019
22 m awayRef 2019010226334
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki ER
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki ER)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025010583050 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 2025.