A23 crash in Lambeth on 16 October 1989 at 00:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 00:50 on Monday 16 October 1989. The 51-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 47-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 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
- 16 Oct 1989
- Monday, 00:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41672, longitude -0.12574, in the SW16 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
- 198901LS00543
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- 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 20 August 2000.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 20 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001LX01302
Slight
Fiat 500X crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 2 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010613015
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 2 December 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010612890
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 14 July 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010388379
Serious
Audi A5 crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 18 July 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010389022
Slight
Honda crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 2 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301LS00097
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198901LS00543 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 1989.