A23 crash in Lambeth on 30 October 2007 at 11:05 involving a BMW motorcycle
A BMW motorcycle and a Suzuki Carry van were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 11:05 on Tuesday 30 October 2007. The 45-year-old male rider of the BMW 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
- 30 Oct 2007
- Tuesday, 11:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW and Suzuki Carry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4662, longitude -0.11347, in the SW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brixton North, Lambeth, SW9 8AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701LX50587
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 23
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 9 November 1985
At the same spotRef 198501LD00501
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 8 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601LD00222
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 16 June 2006
At the same spotRef 200601LX50442
Slight
Volvo crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 22 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601LD00066
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 9 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201LX01430
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 20 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501LD00412
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 740 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki Carry
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW)
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 200701LX50587 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.