A2 crash in Southwark on 18 December 1994 at 07:05 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada and a Citroen BX were involved in a crash on the A2 in Southwark at 07:05 on Sunday 18 December 1994. The 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Granada was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 1994
- Sunday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Granada and Citroen BX
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49174, longitude -0.08262, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199401MS00431
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Raining, 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 17 October 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Southwark, 17 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200101MM01366
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Southwark, 30 January 2016
At the same spotRef 201601MM70065
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A2 in Southwark, 26 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601MS00211
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A2 in Southwark, 5 December 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010613642
Serious
Mercedes B Class crash on the A2 in Southwark, 7 March 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010562679
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A2 in Southwark, 31 August 2022
10 m awayRef 2022010396818
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,933 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen BX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
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 199401MS00431 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 1994.