A20 crash in Lewisham on 22 December 2003 at 23:05 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Toyota RAV4 were involved in a crash on the A20 in Lewisham at 23:05 on Monday 22 December 2003. The 32-year-old male driver of the Toyota RAV4 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2003
- Monday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45807, longitude 0.00755, in the SE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lee Green, Lewisham, SE13 5QF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301PL01139
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 September 2014.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 13 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201401PL60781
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 24 August 1986
22 m awayRef 198601PD00550
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 10 March 1985
22 m awayRef 198501PD00135
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 31 August 2019
26 m awayRef 2019010202545
Slight
Toyota Prius crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 21 January 2022
27 m awayRef 2022010355994
Slight
Bus crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 25 July 1985
28 m awayRef 198501PD00428
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota RAV4)
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 200301PL01139 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.