A21 crash in Lewisham on 18 May 1986 at 02:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 02:00 on Sunday 18 May 1986. A 21-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 and the 18-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1986
- Sunday, 02:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4583, longitude -0.01276, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601PL00226
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 23 May 1986.
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 23 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601PL00234
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 2 January 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PL60074
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 28 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301PL00617
Slight
Yamaha X crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 20 May 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010576391
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 11 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010515551
Slight
Mini One crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 3 May 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010508349
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 198601PL00226 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 1986.