Serious A3 crash in Lambeth on 21 December 2012 at 18:45 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A3 in Lambeth at 18:45 on Friday 21 December 2012. The male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 2012
- Friday, 18:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4882, longitude -0.10608, in the SE11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB01267
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2017.
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Mercedes C Class crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 29 July 2017
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Carbodies Taxi crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 27 May 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MS00210
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 7 February 1996
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 1 November 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010067626
Serious
Honda crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 19 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MS00455
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Lambeth, 8 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201LX50089
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), 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 201201TB01267 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 2012.