Serious B212 crash in Lewisham on 11 December 2025 at 18:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the B212 in Lewisham at 18:30 on Thursday 11 December 2025. The 59-year-old male cyclist was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Dec 2025
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46525, longitude 0.00916, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath, Lewisham, SE3 0RX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010614805
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 212
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 1997.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 29 November 1997
5 m awayRef 199701PL00707
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 28 September 1996
5 m awayRef 199601PL00581
Slight
Car crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 2 June 1983
5 m awayRef 1983010PD0362
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 22 October 1999
5 m awayRef 199901PL00627
Slight
Car crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 11 March 2012
5 m awayRef 201201RG40134
Slight
Car crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 26 February 1982
5 m awayRef 1982010PD0137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 59, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most 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 2025010614805 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.