A215 crash in Lambeth on 24 December 2025 at 22:45 involving a Toyota Prius taxi
A Toyota Prius taxi and a Honda Adv 350 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A215 in Lambeth at 22:45 on Wednesday 24 December 2025. The 21-year-old male rider of the Honda Adv 350 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
- 24 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and Honda Adv 350
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43919, longitude -0.10613, in the SW2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Martin's, Lambeth, SE27 9BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010617331
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 May 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 4 May 1988
4 m awayRef 198801LS00218
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 3 December 1987
4 m awayRef 198701LS00627
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 25 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010617369
Slight
Bus crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 7 October 1985
4 m awayRef 198501LS00510
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 24 July 1986
4 m awayRef 198601LS00338
Slight
Audi A5 crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 21 September 2011
4 m awayRef 201101LX50699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Vehicle 2: Honda Adv 350
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- 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
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 330 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 5 to 10 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda Adv 350)
- 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 2025010617331 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 2025.