A2 crash in Lewisham on 8 January 2004 at 08:50 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A2 in Lewisham at 08:50 on Thursday 8 January 2004. The 37-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series and a male passenger in the BMW 3 Series 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
- 8 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47703, longitude -0.05009, in the SE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Telegraph Hill, Lewisham, SE14 5HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401PL00035
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2025.
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Serious
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 11 October 1985
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 12 December 1989
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Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 24 December 1982
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Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 9 April 2021
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200401PL00035 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 2004.