A20 crash in Lewisham on 18 March 2015 at 07:05 involving an Audi A3
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Mar 2015
- Wednesday, 07:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A3 and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45794, longitude 0.0081, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath, Lewisham, SE3 9HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PL60197
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 September 2004.
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 29 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401PL60560
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 7 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PL00190
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 30 October 1995
10 m awayRef 199501PL00571
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 21 January 1997
14 m awayRef 199701PL00025
Slight
Volvo crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 November 2015
14 m awayRef 201501PL69093
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 2 April 1991
22 m awayRef 199101PL00197
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- 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
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,189 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 201501PL60197 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 2015.