A300 crash in Southwark on 14 February 1997 at 17:37 involving a Ford Sierra
A Ford Sierra and a Volvo bus were involved in a crash on the A300 in Southwark at 17:37 on Friday 14 February 1997. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Sierra was 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
- 14 Feb 1997
- Friday, 17:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Sierra and Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50284, longitude -0.09613, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701MD00074
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 300
- Road type
- Single 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
- A
- Second road number
- 2198
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 15 March 1998.
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 15 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801MD00131
Slight
Honda crash on the A300 in Southwark, 17 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501MD00250
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 24 July 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010125615
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A300 in Southwark, 12 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401MD00598
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A300 in Southwark, 23 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401MM70579
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A2198 in Southwark, 23 October 1997
At the same spotRef 199701MD00577
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,769 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Sierra)
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 199701MD00074 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 1997.