A21 crash in Lewisham on 3 April 1997 at 18:30 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle and a Fiat Uno were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 18:30 on Thursday 3 April 1997. The 18-year-old male rider of the Honda C90 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Apr 1997
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda C90 and Fiat Uno
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44653, longitude -0.01917, 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
- 199701PD00163
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 serious injury crash on 5 April 2018.
Serious
Citroen Xsara crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 5 April 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010100544
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 30 November 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PL60854
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 9 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200601PL60438
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 12 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60295
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 16 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401PL60663
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 3 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200601PL60267
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Uno
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 199701PD00163 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 1997.