A2 crash in Southwark on 25 September 2020 at 16:15 involving a Lexmoto Diablo 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Diablo 125 motorcycle and a Toyota Prius taxi were involved in a crash on the A2 in Southwark at 16:15 on Friday 25 September 2020. The 20-year-old male rider of the Lexmoto Diablo 125 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
- 25 Sep 2020
- Friday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lexmoto Diablo 125 and Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49183, longitude -0.08266, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the South Bermondsey, Southwark, SE1 5SR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010271129
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2025.
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A2 in Southwark, 28 October 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010607397
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A2 in Southwark, 6 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010579129
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A2 in Southwark, 31 August 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010396818
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A2 in Southwark, 11 December 2010
5 m awayRef 201001MM71063
Slight
Bus crash on the A2 in Southwark, 19 November 1983
5 m awayRef 1983010MD0613
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2 in Southwark, 20 September 1989
5 m awayRef 198901MS00370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Diablo 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Diablo 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020010271129 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 2020.