A21 crash in Lewisham on 21 August 2001 at 08:00 involving a BMW 3 Series
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Aug 2001
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46076, longitude -0.01306, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewisham Central, Lewisham, SE13 7NZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PL00982
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 1 March 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 1 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PL00112
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 19 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PL00746
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 1 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PL00109
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 4 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PL00843
Slight
Suzuki Ignis crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 13 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010580266
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 28 October 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010540694
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, hit by vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 200101PL00982 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.