A23 crash in Lambeth on 12 August 2007 at 17:30 involving a Vauxhall Vivaro van
A Vauxhall Vivaro van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 17:30 on Sunday 12 August 2007. The 44-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Aug 2007
- Sunday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vivaro and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4882, longitude -0.11126, in the SE11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newington, Southwark, SE17 3RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701LX50490
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3204
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 19 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101LX01141
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Bicycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 30 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010613993
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 17 January 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010158107
Slight
Scania crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 14 March 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010096055
Slight
Van crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 24 May 2000
10 m awayRef 200001LX00902
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 6 December 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010150731
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vivaro
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 44, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 200701LX50490 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 2007.