A212 crash in Lewisham on 1 August 2002 at 04:20 involving a Peugeot 306
A Peugeot 306 and a Ford Transit minibus were involved in a crash on the A212 in Lewisham at 04:20 on Thursday 1 August 2002. The 26-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 306 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Aug 2002
- Thursday, 04:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 306 and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43087, longitude -0.03767, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sydenham, Lewisham, SE26 4ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PL00709
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 227
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 19 February 1999.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 19 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PD00105
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 16 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PD00291
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 23 August 1988
10 m awayRef 198801PD00518
Serious
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the B227 in Lewisham, 24 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001PL01377
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 2 April 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PD00232
Slight
Skoda 120 crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 4 January 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PD00014
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Minibus (8 to 16 seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 306)
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 200201PL00709 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.