Serious unclassified road crash in Lewisham SE6 on 20 December 2025 at 12:20 involving a Vauxhall Grandland
A Vauxhall Grandland and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 12:20 on Saturday 20 December 2025. The 19-year-old female cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Dec 2025
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Grandland and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42943, longitude -0.02105, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Catford South, Lewisham, SE6 3DG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010616583
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 May 1999.
Serious
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 1 May 1999
10 m awayRef 199901PD00265
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 3 April 1985
20 m awayRef 198501PD00184
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 31 August 1982
20 m awayRef 1982010PD0571
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 20 November 1984
20 m awayRef 198401PD00760
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 1 April 1991
20 m awayRef 199101PD00157
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 9 October 1986
20 m awayRef 198601PD00671
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Grandland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousFemale, aged 19, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2025010616583 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.