B218 crash in Lewisham on 11 September 2025 at 21:17 involving a Yamaha X motorcycle
A Yamaha X motorcycle and an Audi A1 were involved in a crash on the B218 in Lewisham at 21:17 on Thursday 11 September 2025. The 40-year-old male rider of the Yamaha X motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2025
- Thursday, 21:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha X and Audi A1
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45511, longitude -0.03697, in the SE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crofton Park, Lewisham, SE4 2DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010597032
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 218
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 2019.
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 1 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010178373
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 5 July 2003
8 m awayRef 200301PL00629
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 9 November 2002
8 m awayRef 200201PL01206
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 27 July 1987
8 m awayRef 198701PL00349
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 13 October 2007
8 m awayRef 200701PL60437
Slight
Car crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 2 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010PL0643
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha X
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Audi A1
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha X)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 5 to 10 km
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 2025010597032 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 2025.