A212 crash in Lewisham on 30 July 1983 at 04:34 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A212 in Lewisham at 04:34 on Saturday 30 July 1983. A 21-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 and a 20-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 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
- 30 Jul 1983
- Saturday, 04:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42602, longitude -0.05056, in the SE26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010PD0495
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- 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 15 October 1993.
Slight
MCW crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 15 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301PD00523
Slight
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At the same spotRef 2018010109987
Slight
Lexus IS300 crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 7 October 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010272398
Slight
Peugeot Boxer crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 22 May 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010511909
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 19 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010587673
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 16 July 2000
10 m awayRef 200001PL00732
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1983010PD0495 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 1983.