A201 crash in Southwark on 19 June 2012 at 23:10 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A201 in Southwark at 23:10 on Tuesday 19 June 2012. The 30-year-old male cyclist 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
- 19 Jun 2012
- Tuesday, 23:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49413, longitude -0.09459, in the SE1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chaucer, Southwark, SE1 6PH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201MM70460
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 201
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A201 in Southwark, 10 June 2012
At the same spotRef 201201MM70430
Slight
Bus crash on the A201 in Southwark, 8 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501MS00309
Slight
Bus crash on the A201 in Southwark, 20 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601MS00206
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A201 in Southwark, 5 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010607731
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A201 in Southwark, 16 May 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010443267
Slight
Wrightbus NB4L crash on the A201 in Southwark, 21 January 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010422754
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,685 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 30, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 201201MM70460 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.