A21 crash in Lewisham on 6 February 2012 at 08:00 involving a Renault Kangoo van
A Renault Kangoo van and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 08:00 on Monday 6 February 2012. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Feb 2012
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Kangoo and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44385, longitude -0.01797, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rushey Green, Lewisham, SE6 2EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201PL60056
- 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
- One way street
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 August 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 23 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PD0551
Serious
Leyland crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 8 August 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PD00463
Serious
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 18 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PD00512
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 19 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PD00549
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 6 April 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PD00242
Slight
MG HS crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 14 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010611571
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Kangoo
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 201201PL60056 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 2012.