A23 crash in Lambeth on 12 December 2016 at 16:10 involving a Toyota Verso taxi
A Toyota Verso taxi and a Sym Symply motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 16:10 on Monday 12 December 2016. The 32-year-old male rider of the Sym Symply motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2016
- Monday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Verso and Sym Symply
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45987, longitude -0.11661, in the SW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brixton North, Lambeth, SW9 8AB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010006502
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 May 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 11 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010LD0183
Slight
Ford Puma crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 27 August 2009
At the same spotRef 200901LX50762
Serious
Bus crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 28 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801LD00184
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 20 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001LX01324
Slight
Volvo crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 3 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010607337
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 8 August 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010261113
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Verso
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Sym Symply
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 32, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Sym Symply)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016010006502 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 2016.