A23 crash in Lambeth on 4 June 1997 at 08:00 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Suzuki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 08:00 on Wednesday 4 June 1997. The 30-year-old female rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Suzuki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46447, longitude -0.11442, in the SW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701LD00260
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 February 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 2 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200701LX50314
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 16 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201LX00451
Slight
Audi S3 crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 24 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401LX50814
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 18 October 2009
At the same spotRef 200901LX50926
Serious
BMW 2 Series crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 18 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010604204
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 27 May 2020
10 m awayRef 2020010249370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 487 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 30, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Suzuki)
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 199701LD00260 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1997.