A215 crash in Southwark on 16 February 1988 at 14:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on the A215 in Southwark at 14:00 on Tuesday 16 February 1988. A 65-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Feb 1988
- Tuesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.488, longitude -0.09559, in the SE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801MS00072
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 9 January 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Southwark, 9 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901MS00011
Slight
Austin Allegro crash on the A215 in Southwark, 29 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001MS00230
Slight
Leyland crash on the A215 in Southwark, 20 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001MS00206
Serious
Lorry crash on the A215 in Southwark, 2 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701MS00053
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A215 in Southwark, 9 August 2023
2 m awayRef 2023010466267
Slight
MG 4 crash on the A215 in Southwark, 20 July 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010456438
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 65, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 198801MS00072 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 1988.