Serious unclassified road crash in Lewisham SE4 on 15 January 1983 at 20:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 20:00 on Saturday 15 January 1983. A 2-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Jan 1983
- Saturday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46573, longitude -0.04282, in the SE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010PL0028
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 6 February 2000
32 m awayRef 200001PL00095
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 28 August 1998
36 m awayRef 199801PL00477
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 11 July 2023
37 m awayRef 2023010454516
Serious
Car crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 17 October 1985
40 m awayRef 198501PL00544
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 14 August 1984
45 m awayRef 198401PL00412
Slight
Car crash on the B2142 in Lewisham, 22 March 1990
50 m awayRef 199001PL00168
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 2, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983010PL0028 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.