A202 crash in Lewisham on 12 July 2015 at 11:35 involving a Volkswagen Touran
A Volkswagen Touran crashed on the A202 in Lewisham at 11:35 on Sunday 12 July 2015. A 43-year-old female passenger, an 11-year-old male passenger and an 8-year-old male passenger were 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
- 12 Jul 2015
- Sunday, 11:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47392, longitude -0.04909, in the SE14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Telegraph Hill, Lewisham, SE14 5HQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PL60551
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 202
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2017.
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 6 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010020875
Fatal
Car crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 29 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PL00578
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 23 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201601PL60560
Slight
Car crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 18 January 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PL00024
Serious
Jaguar X Type crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 8 December 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010614140
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A202 in Lewisham, 22 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010588206
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 11, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- 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 201501PL60551 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.