Serious A205 crash in Lewisham on 12 November 2025 at 12:05 involving a Honda WW125 motorcycle
A Honda WW125 motorcycle and a Volvo V90 were involved in a crash on the A205 in Lewisham at 12:05 on Wednesday 12 November 2025. The 34-year-old male rider of the Honda WW125 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Nov 2025
- Wednesday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda WW125 and Volvo V90
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44504, longitude -0.02307, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rushey Green, Lewisham, SE6 2EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010609013
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2012.
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 25 July 2012
17 m awayRef 201201PL60483
Serious
Car crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 13 November 1986
23 m awayRef 198601PD00748
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 29 June 2001
27 m awayRef 200101PL00657
Serious
Car crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 23 April 1987
27 m awayRef 198701PD00198
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 12 October 2017
27 m awayRef 2017010064064
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 8 September 1989
27 m awayRef 198901PD00596
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda WW125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Volvo V90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,969 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda WW125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 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 2025010609013 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.