B212 crash in Lewisham on 3 October 2002 at 11:30 involving a Ford Galaxy
A car and a Ford Galaxy were involved in a crash on the B212 in Lewisham at 11:30 on Thursday 3 October 2002. A 40-year-old male passenger in the car and the female driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 2002
- Thursday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45711, longitude 0.01125, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath, Lewisham, SE3 9HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PL00993
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 212
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 November 2025.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 23 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010611242
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 17 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010PD0316
Slight
Van crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 22 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PD00355
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 23 August 2006
10 m awayRef 200601PL60618
Serious
Taxi crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 2 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PD00310
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the B212 in Lewisham, 7 March 2023
20 m awayRef 2023010430952
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 200201PL00993 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.