A21 crash in Lewisham on 19 September 1985 at 17:15 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Sep 1985
- Thursday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44391, longitude -0.01799, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501PD00549
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 21
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 23 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PD0551
Serious
Leyland crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 8 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PD00463
Serious
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 18 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PD00512
Slight
Renault Kangoo crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 6 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201PL60056
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 6 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PD00242
Slight
MG HS crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 14 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010611571
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 32, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198501PD00549 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 1985.