Unclassified road crash in Southwark SE16 on 1 November 1999 at 17:04 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Southwark at 17:04 on Monday 1 November 1999. The 61-year-old female driver 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
- 1 Nov 1999
- Monday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49976, longitude -0.06511, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901MD00588
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 61, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 199901MD00588 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 1999.