A212 crash in Lewisham on 14 October 2015 at 14:07 involving a Mercedes C Class
A car, a motorcycle and a Mercedes C Class were involved in a crash on the A212 in Lewisham at 14:07 on Wednesday 14 October 2015. The 21-year-old male rider of the 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
- 14 Oct 2015
- Wednesday, 14:07
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes C Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42623, longitude -0.05285, in the SE26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sydenham, Lewisham, SE26 4ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PL60965
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 213
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 July 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 26 July 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PD00454
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 17 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PD00170
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 2 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PD00175
Slight
Leyland DAF FA 60 crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 14 February 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PD00086
Slight
Leyland crash on the A213 in Lewisham, 25 June 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PD00353
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 21 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60643
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 3: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 201501PL60965 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 2015.