B202 crash in Southwark on 29 October 1997 at 12:20 involving a Peugeot 309
A Peugeot 309 and a Toyota Previa were involved in a crash on the B202 in Southwark at 12:20 on Wednesday 29 October 1997. The 38-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 309 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 1997
- Wednesday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 309 and Toyota Previa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49798, longitude -0.07371, 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
- 199701MD00576
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 202
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 1996.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B202 in Southwark, 16 January 1996
10 m awayRef 199601MD00076
Serious
Car crash on the B202 in Southwark, 25 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199001MD00035
Serious
Car crash on the B202 in Southwark, 16 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200101MM00626
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the B202 in Southwark, 4 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701MD00019
Slight
Skoda Elroq Edition crash on the B202 in Southwark, 10 November 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010608665
Serious
Chevrolet Captiva crash on the B202 in Southwark, 4 December 2021
14 m awayRef 2021010348136
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 309
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Previa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,438 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 309)
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 199701MD00576 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.