C road crash in Lewisham SE4 on 20 August 2003 at 12:40 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on a C road in Lewisham at 12:40 on Wednesday 20 August 2003. The 36-year-old male driver 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
- 20 Aug 2003
- Wednesday, 12:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45566, longitude -0.03041, in the SE4 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
- 200301PL00792
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 1983.
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 10 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PL0290
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Lewisham, 13 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PL0591
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 21 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PL00617
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Lewisham, 14 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201PL60105
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Lewisham, 2 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PL00311
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on a C road in Lewisham, 20 September 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010598669
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200301PL00792 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 2003.