A2206 crash in Southwark on 18 December 1986 at 20:15 involving a car
A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A2206 in Southwark at 20:15 on Thursday 18 December 1986. The 19-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1986
- Thursday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and lorry
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4927, longitude -0.0699, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601MD00646
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2206
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 February 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 21 February 2004
At the same spotRef 200401MM00183
Serious
Car crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 14 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801MD00135
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 2 October 2003
At the same spotRef 200301MM01164
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 1 February 2002
At the same spotRef 200201MM00249
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 2 June 2005
At the same spotRef 200501MM70631
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on the A2206 in Southwark, 12 February 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010558870
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198601MD00646 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 1986.