A202 crash in Southwark on 8 May 1983 at 00:10 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A202 in Southwark at 00:10 on Sunday 8 May 1983. The 49-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 15-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1983
- Sunday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47393, longitude -0.06032, in the SE15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010MM0217
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 202
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A202 in Southwark, 26 November 2015
At the same spotRef 201501MM70987
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A202 in Southwark, 11 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200601MM71168
Slight
Leyland Aec crash on the A202 in Southwark, 22 October 1992
At the same spotRef 199201MM00463
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A202 in Southwark, 30 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201MM01602
Fatal
Leyland Aec crash on the A202 in Southwark, 12 October 2002
At the same spotRef 200201MM01236
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A202 in Southwark, 22 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201201MM70373
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1983010MM0217 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 1983.