B272 crash in Lambeth on 25 December 2004 at 23:00 involving a Fiat Punto
A motorcycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the B272 in Lambeth at 23:00 on Saturday 25 December 2004. A female passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Dec 2004
- Saturday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41368, longitude -0.14152, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longthornton, Merton, CR4 1NR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401LX50832
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 272
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 21%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 79%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 July 2013.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 11 July 2013
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Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 18 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010002298
Slight
Honda GLR 125 crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 2 June 2023
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Serious
Car crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 2 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198501LS00109
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 21 June 2019
14 m awayRef 2019010188596
Slight
Car crash on the B272 in Lambeth, 21 May 1989
14 m awayRef 198901LS00262
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200401LX50832 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 2004.