A20 crash in Lewisham on 24 September 2001 at 15:45 involving a Honda Accord
A Honda Accord and a Gilera Runner motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A20 in Lewisham at 15:45 on Monday 24 September 2001. The male rider of the Gilera Runner motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2001
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Accord and Gilera Runner
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46446, longitude -0.01377, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewisham Central, Lewisham, SE13 7NZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PL01005
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 5 November 1994.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 5 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PL00670
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Mazda 323 crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 7 August 2013
At the same spotRef 201301PL60564
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 14 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PL00082
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Mercedes crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 26 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PL60326
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Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 5 October 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010601931
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Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 17 October 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010212853
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,955 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Gilera Runner
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Gilera Runner)
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 200101PL01005 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 2001.