A205 crash in Lewisham on 10 November 1993 at 19:44 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion and a Leyland bus were involved in a crash on the A205 in Lewisham at 19:44 on Wednesday 10 November 1993. A 26-year-old female passenger in the Ford Orion, the 29-year-old male driver of the Leyland bus and a male passenger in the Leyland bus were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 1993
- Wednesday, 19:44
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Orion and Leyland
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4419, longitude -0.03218, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199301PD00565
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 15 June 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010043070
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 8 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PD00008
Fatal
HGV crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 23 May 2014
10 m awayRef 201401TD00042
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 17 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PD00607
Serious
Land Rover Freelander crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 4 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200501PL60600
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Lewisham, 29 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200201PL09010
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Leyland)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Leyland)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Seated 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 199301PD00565 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 1993.