A2 crash in Lewisham on 14 September 1997 at 12:35 involving a Nissan Sunny
A motorcycle and a Nissan Sunny were involved in a crash on the A2 in Lewisham at 12:35 on Sunday 14 September 1997. The 27-year-old female rider of the 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
- 14 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Nissan Sunny
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47498, longitude -0.02629, in the SE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701PL00524
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2209
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 15 May 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 15 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PL0237
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 1 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PL00489
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 24 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PL00322
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 6 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PL00377
Slight
Kia Pride crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 24 February 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PL00348
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 18 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PL00088
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Sunny
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,270 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 27, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199701PL00524 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.