A21 crash in Lewisham on 9 March 2006 at 19:27 involving a Honda SES125 motorcycle
A Honda SES125 motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 19:27 on Thursday 9 March 2006. The 49-year-old male rider of the Honda SES125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2006
- Thursday, 19:27
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda SES125 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41732, longitude 0.00346, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Downham, Lewisham, BR1 4NF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601PL60145
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 21
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 22%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 78%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 December 1999.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 13 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PL00851
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 26 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PD00178
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 24 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PY00476
Serious
Honda crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 4 November 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PY01068
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 24 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PY00191
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 30 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PY00856
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda SES125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 49, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda SES125)
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 200601PL60145 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 2006.