Serious B238 crash in Lewisham on 5 May 2000 at 22:53 involving an Austin Maestro
An Austin Maestro and a Honda Integra were involved in a crash on the B238 in Lewisham at 22:53 on Friday 5 May 2000. The 60-year-old male driver of the Austin Maestro was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 May 2000
- Friday, 22:53
- Vehicles
- 2
- Austin Maestro and Honda Integra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44943, longitude -0.04493, in the SE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200001PL00428
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 238
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 April 2012.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 24 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201201PL60234
Slight
Car crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 11 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PD00605
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 27 November 2023
At the same spotRef 2023010480751
Slight
Piaggio T5 125 crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 17 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PD00265
Slight
Honda crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 7 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PD00637
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 7 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200101PL00567
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,275 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Integra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,488 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Austin Maestro)
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 200001PL00428 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lewisham road accident statistics for 2000.