C road crash in Lewisham BR1 on 23 February 2001 at 15:33 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Rover 200 Series were involved in a crash on a C road in Lewisham at 15:33 on Friday 23 February 2001. A 73-year-old female passenger in the Rover 200 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2001
- Friday, 15:33
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Rover 200 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43274, longitude 0.00601, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hither Green, Lewisham, BR1 5SQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PL00206
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2012.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Lewisham, 20 December 2012
36 m awayRef 201201TB01226
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Lewisham, 29 January 1987
36 m awayRef 198701PD00031
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 30 May 1983
40 m awayRef 1983010PD0340
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Lewisham, 15 March 2012
42 m awayRef 201201PL60176
Slight
Rover Montego crash on a C road in Lewisham, 27 September 1991
42 m awayRef 199101PD00508
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 23 November 1991
42 m awayRef 199101PD00625
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,989 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Rover 200 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Rover 200 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200101PL00206 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 2001.