A2 crash in Lewisham on 30 July 2023 at 17:00 involving an Audi Q2
An Audi Q2 and an electric motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Lewisham at 17:00 on Sunday 30 July 2023. The 36-year-old male rider of the electric motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2023
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi Q2 and electric motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47182, longitude -0.00086, in the SE3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath, Lewisham, SE3 0RX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010458036
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 May 1994.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 3 May 1994
6 m awayRef 199401PL00243
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 17 July 1991
7 m awayRef 199101PL00483
Slight
Honda CG125B crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 4 May 1993
7 m awayRef 199301RG00242
Serious
Suzuki Alto crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 16 June 2010
7 m awayRef 201001RG40381
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 16 January 2010
7 m awayRef 201001PL60025
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 21 May 2014
7 m awayRef 201401RG40310
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi Q2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- 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
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Electric motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Tram or light rail track
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, e-scooter or powered transporter user, on vehicle 2 (Electric motorcycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2023010458036 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 2023.