A2207 crash in Southwark on 7 September 1997 at 16:15 involving a Rover 200 Series
A Rover 200 Series crashed on the A2207 in Southwark at 16:15 on Sunday 7 September 1997. A 9-year-old female passenger and a male passenger aged under 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 1997
- Sunday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50018, longitude -0.07592, 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
- 199701MD00471
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2207
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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
- 2207
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 16 February 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 16 February 1988
At the same spotRef 198801MD00088
Slight
Car crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 6 December 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010613906
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 22 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010608156
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 26 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198801MD00530
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 20 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801MD00512
Slight
Renault crash on the A2207 in Southwark, 22 September 1991
10 m awayRef 199101MD00492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged under 1, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 200 Series)
- 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 199701MD00471 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.