Serious A200 crash in Lewisham on 11 July 1999 at 18:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Honda CB350S motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A200 in Lewisham at 18:05 on Sunday 11 July 1999. The 33-year-old male rider of the Honda CB350S motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Jul 1999
- Sunday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Honda CB350S
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48169, longitude -0.02756, in the SE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901PL00370
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 200
- 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 21 July 2012.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 21 July 2012
At the same spotRef 201201PL60472
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 4 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PL00578
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 13 July 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010120874
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 31 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199501PL00056
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 20 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199901PL00328
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 23 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PL00528
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Honda CB350S
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 348 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda CB350S)
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 199901PL00370 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 1999.