A20 crash in Lewisham on 5 November 2016 at 12:55 involving a Volkswagen Touran
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Touran
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47048, longitude -0.02906, in the SE4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockley, Lewisham, SE4 1NX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010000541
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 May 1992.
Serious
Leyland Aec crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199201PL00272
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 22 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199301PL00729
Slight
Honda crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 13 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PL00542
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 24 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PL00153
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PL00263
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 31 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PL01179
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Touran
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Touran)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2016010000541 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 2016.