A2 crash in Lewisham on 20 September 2000 at 18:10 involving a Rover 600 Series
A Rover 600 Series and a Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Lewisham at 18:10 on Wednesday 20 September 2000. The 32-year-old male rider of the Suzuki GSF 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Sep 2000
- Wednesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 600 Series and Suzuki GSF 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47694, longitude -0.05023, in the SE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200001PL00966
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2021.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 9 April 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010301457
Slight
Honda NSS crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 22 October 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010605287
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 16 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200401PL60424
Serious
Toyota Prius+ crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 11 December 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010006356
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 12 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PL00660
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 11 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198501PL00528
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki GSF 600
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki GSF 600)
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 200001PL00966 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 2000.