A20 crash in Lewisham on 13 September 2014 at 12:10 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Mazda 5 were involved in a crash on the A20 in Lewisham at 12:10 on Saturday 13 September 2014. The 52-year-old male driver of the Mercedes C Class and a 14-year-old female passenger in the Mercedes C Class 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
- 13 Sep 2014
- Saturday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Mazda 5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45807, longitude 0.00769, in the SE12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lee Green, Lewisham, SE13 5QF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401PL60781
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- 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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 22 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200301PL01139
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 24 August 1986
14 m awayRef 198601PD00550
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 2 April 1991
20 m awayRef 199101PL00197
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 10 March 1985
20 m awayRef 198501PD00135
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 21 January 1997
22 m awayRef 199701PL00025
Slight
Volvo crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 November 2015
22 m awayRef 201501PL69093
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda 5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 52, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 14, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201401PL60781 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 2014.