B238 crash in Lewisham on 30 January 2002 at 08:43 involving a Renault
A Renault and a Leyland DAF Fad 85 lorry were involved in a crash on the B238 in Lewisham at 08:43 on Wednesday 30 January 2002. The 23-year-old male driver of the Renault was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jan 2002
- Wednesday, 08:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault and Leyland DAF Fad 85
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44933, longitude -0.04422, in the SE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crofton Park, Lewisham, SE4 2DH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PL00103
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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 6 September 2015.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 6 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PL60715
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 6 February 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PL00131
Slight
Fiat Doblo crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 11 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PL61009
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 19 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010587546
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 21 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701PD00658
Serious
Car crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 31 December 1988
10 m awayRef 198801PD00848
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,834 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Leyland DAF Fad 85
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault)
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 200201PL00103 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 2002.