A200 crash in Southwark on 20 January 2012 at 10:03 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A200 in Southwark at 10:03 on Friday 20 January 2012. The 48-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Jan 2012
- Friday, 10:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4929, longitude -0.04682, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Evelyn, Lewisham, SE8 5DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201MM70034
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 200
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 2202
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 24 January 1999.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A200 in Southwark, 24 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MD00034
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2202 in Southwark, 12 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601MM70464
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A200 in Southwark, 9 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001MM01163
Slight
Volvo crash on the A200 in Southwark, 19 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200801MM70292
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A200 in Southwark, 4 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010574866
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A200 in Southwark, 26 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010571459
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201201MM70034 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 2012.