A2217 crash in Lambeth on 17 April 2004 at 22:00 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Vauxhall Carlton were involved in a crash on the A2217 in Lambeth at 22:00 on Saturday 17 April 2004. The 26-year-old male driver of the Renault Megane was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Apr 2004
- Saturday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46803, longitude -0.09885, in the SE5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Herne Hill & Loughborough Junction, Lambeth, SE5 9PQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401LX50016
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2217
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2016.
Slight
Yamaha YP 125 crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 16 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601LX50606
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 31 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010606821
Slight
Car crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 22 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198601LD00283
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 13 December 2000
10 m awayRef 200001LX01986
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 19 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010616399
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A2217 in Lambeth, 4 January 2020
20 m awayRef 2020010228558
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 200401LX50016 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 2004.