B238 crash in Lewisham on 19 June 2013 at 08:20 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B238 in Lewisham at 08:20 on Wednesday 19 June 2013. The 37-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa 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
- 19 Jun 2013
- Wednesday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44923, longitude -0.04408, in the SE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crofton Park, Lewisham, SE4 2DH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301PL60404
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 238
- 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
- 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
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 15 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PL00393
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 11 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199701PL00589
Serious
Car crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 31 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801PD00848
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 21 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701PD00658
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 6 February 2001
14 m awayRef 200101PL00131
Slight
Renault crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 30 January 2002
14 m awayRef 200201PL00103
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 201301PL60404 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.