Serious A2209 crash in Lewisham on 8 August 2001 at 12:30 involving a Nissan Bluebird
A Nissan Bluebird hit two pedestrians on the A2209 in Lewisham at 12:30 on Wednesday 8 August 2001. A 45-year-old female pedestrian and a 4-year-old female pedestrian were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Aug 2001
- Wednesday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4772, longitude -0.02257, in the SE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Deptford, Lewisham, SE14 6FQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PL00837
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2209
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 14 July 2003.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A2209 in Lewisham, 14 July 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PL00687
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A2209 in Lewisham, 15 August 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010527986
Slight
Fiat Tempra crash on the A2209 in Lewisham, 12 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001PL00363
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A2209 in Lewisham, 24 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201401PL60786
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 2 March 1988
10 m awayRef 198801PL00109
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2209 in Lewisham, 15 April 2015
10 m awayRef 201501PL60266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,809 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 45, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Nissan Bluebird)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200101PL00837 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.