A215 crash in Lambeth on 26 December 1999 at 17:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A215 in Lambeth at 17:40 on Sunday 26 December 1999. The 81-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 and the 31-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 1999
- Sunday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44224, longitude -0.10553, in the SE24 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901LS00558
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 215
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 26 July 2006.
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 26 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601LX50555
Serious
Honda CBF 125 crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 10 May 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010574155
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 10 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199001LS00403
Serious
Fiat Cinquecento crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 10 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199901LS00009
Slight
Car crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 15 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198901LS00477
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A215 in Lambeth, 24 January 1999
10 m awayRef 199901LS00027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 81, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 199901LS00558 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 1999.