A201 crash in Southwark on 30 September 1998 at 11:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Renault 5 were involved in a crash on the A201 in Southwark at 11:30 on Wednesday 30 September 1998. The 19-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo 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
- 30 Sep 1998
- Wednesday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Renault 5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49396, longitude -0.08627, 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
- 199801MS00424
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- 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
- 2
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 October 2014.
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A201 in Southwark, 26 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401MM71009
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A201 in Southwark, 14 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501MM70469
Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Southwark, 30 January 1997
10 m awayRef 199701MS00034
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Southwark, 27 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200301TD00210
Slight
Mini One crash on the A2 in Southwark, 9 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010021154
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 13 June 2025
13 m awayRef 2025010580434
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Renault 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,397 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 199801MS00424 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 1998.