B218 crash in Lewisham on 9 November 2002 at 17:30 involving a Piaggio NRG motorcycle
A Piaggio NRG motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B218 in Lewisham at 17:30 on Saturday 9 November 2002. The 26-year-old male rider of the Piaggio NRG motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2002
- Saturday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio NRG and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45505, longitude -0.03706, in the SE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crofton Park, Lewisham, SE4 2DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PL01206
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 218
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 July 2003.
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Skoda Fabia crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 5 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PL00629
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Volkswagen Polo crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 13 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200701PL60437
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 27 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PL00349
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Vauxhall Zafira crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 7 May 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010306185
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio NRG
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio NRG)
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 200201PL01206 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 2002.