Serious unclassified road crash in Southwark SE5 on 19 September 2018 at 23:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Southwark at 23:00 on Wednesday 19 September 2018. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Sep 2018
- Wednesday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47461, longitude -0.09656, in the SE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Camberwell Green, Southwark, SE5 0DP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010142309
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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 2 May 1984.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 2 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401MS00145
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 1 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401MM00215
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 30 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010149112
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 5 September 2008
10 m awayRef 200801MM70811
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 27 March 2002
14 m awayRef 200201MM00371
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 19 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010592736
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2018010142309 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 2018.