Serious A21 crash in Lewisham on 24 January 2013 at 16:28 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van and a Honda NC700SA motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 16:28 on Thursday 24 January 2013. The 31-year-old male rider of the Honda NC700SA 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
- 24 Jan 2013
- Thursday, 16:28
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit and Honda NC700SA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4495, longitude -0.01715, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301PL60050
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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 15 March 2015.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 15 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PL60300
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 17 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60314
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 8 April 2009
10 m awayRef 200901PL60225
Slight
Nissan Almera crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 15 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200901PL60186
Slight
Volvo crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 5 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200601PL60259
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 21 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201101PL60209
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Honda NC700SA
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 670 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda NC700SA)
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 201301PL60050 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 2013.