Unclassified road crash in Lewisham SE26 on 5 November 1988 at 22:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 22:00 on Saturday 5 November 1988. An 11-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fog or mist on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 1988
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42547, longitude -0.06094, in the SE26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801PD00693
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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
- Fog or mist
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1991.
Slight
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Slight
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Serious
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 21 May 1992
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Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 25 August 1989
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 3 March 1984
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat 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 198801PD00693 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 1988.