B223 crash in Lambeth on 1 October 1988 at 19:15 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the B223 in Lambeth at 19:15 on Saturday 1 October 1988. The 23-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the male driver of vehicle 2 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
- 1 Oct 1988
- Saturday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45578, longitude -0.10514, in the SE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801LD00451
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 223
- 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 25 August 2008.
Slight
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 25 August 2008
At the same spotRef 200801LX50664
Fatal
Car crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 25 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601LD00244
Slight
Car crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 4 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301LX50303
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 27 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010611952
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 15 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401LX50333
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B223 in Lambeth, 6 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701LD00152
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198801LD00451 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1988.