B238 crash in Lewisham on 30 December 2003 at 18:30 involving a Peugeot 406
A Peugeot 406 and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the B238 in Lewisham at 18:30 on Tuesday 30 December 2003. The 59-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 406 and the 37-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 306 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 406 and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44884, longitude -0.05273, in the SE23 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Forest Hill, Lewisham, SE23 3NR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301PL01169
- 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
- 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 18 May 2013.
Slight
Taxi crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 18 May 2013
At the same spotRef 201301PL60309
Slight
Car crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 24 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601PD00703
Slight
Car crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 15 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501PD00718
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 1 January 2012
14 m awayRef 201201PL60036
Slight
Mercedes 190 crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 3 November 2006
22 m awayRef 200601PL60837
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B238 in Lewisham, 19 June 2015
22 m awayRef 201501PL60519
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 406
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 406)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200301PL01169 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.