A2218 crash in Lewisham on 19 December 2007 at 23:10 involving a Ford Probe
A Ford Probe and a car were involved in a crash on the A2218 in Lewisham at 23:10 on Wednesday 19 December 2007. A 50-year-old female passenger in the Ford Probe was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Dec 2007
- Wednesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Probe and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42597, longitude -0.01903, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Catford South, Lewisham, SE6 3DG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701PL60559
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2218
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 2218
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 April 2000.
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 30 April 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PL00427
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 9 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PL60745
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 27 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PD00649
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 18 February 2005
At the same spotRef 200501PL60208
Serious
Car crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 2 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PL00311
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2218 in Lewisham, 31 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PD00197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Probe
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Probe)
- 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 200701PL60559 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 2007.