B218 crash in Lewisham on 13 August 2001 at 09:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra, a Vauxhall Omega and a car were involved in a crash on the B218 in Lewisham at 09:30 on Monday 13 August 2001. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Omega was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Aug 2001
- Monday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46582, longitude -0.03545, in the SE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockley, Lewisham, SE4 1NX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PL00956
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 218
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 218
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 October 2011.
Slight
Van crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 3 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201101PL60612
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 15 March 1992
At the same spotRef 199201PL00148
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 9 April 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PL00176
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 30 July 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60470
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 21 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PL60604
Slight
Audi 100 crash on the B218 in Lewisham, 23 September 1994
10 m awayRef 199401PL00547
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Omega)
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 200101PL00956 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.