A205 crash in Lambeth on 16 December 2003 at 17:11 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on the A205 in Lambeth at 17:11 on Tuesday 16 December 2003. The 28-year-old male rider of the Suzuki 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
- 16 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43927, longitude -0.10004, in the SE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Martin's, Lambeth, SE27 9BZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301LX01571
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 26 January 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 26 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801LS00036
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 27 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801LS00182
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 23 November 2020
1 m awayRef 2020010280848
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 11 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010569156
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 17 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801LS00398
Serious
Car crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 31 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701LS00143
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 200301LX01571 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 2003.