Serious unclassified road crash in Lewisham SE4 on 27 May 1986 at 15:45 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 15:45 on Tuesday 27 May 1986. A 5-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 May 1986
- Tuesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46691, longitude -0.03859, 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
- 198601PL00242
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 5, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198601PL00242 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.