A202 crash in Lambeth on 1 March 2022 at 23:35 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle and an electric motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A202 in Lambeth at 23:35 on Tuesday 1 March 2022. The 28-year-old rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 2022
- Tuesday, 23:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Vespa and electric motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47921, longitude -0.10552, in the SE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Myatt's Fields, Lambeth, SW9 6NJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010363052
- Council area
- Lambeth
- 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
- 202
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 6 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 27 December 1985.
Serious
Car crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 27 December 1985
6 m awayRef 198501LK00474
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on an unclassified road in Lambeth, 8 July 2010
6 m awayRef 201001MM70561
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 12 July 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010435565
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 31 July 2001
6 m awayRef 200101LX01341
Serious
Car crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 22 July 1986
6 m awayRef 198601LK00236
Slight
Bus crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 17 July 1990
6 m awayRef 199001MS00299
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 123 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Electric motorcycle
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightAged 28, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
- 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 2022010363052 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 2022.