A21 crash in Lewisham on 12 November 2016 at 20:30 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A21 in Lewisham at 20:30 on Saturday 12 November 2016. The 63-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Zafira was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2016
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45726, longitude -0.0135, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lewisham Central, Lewisham, SE13 7NZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010002228
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
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 slight injury crash on 17 August 1999.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 17 August 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PL00448
Slight
Lorry crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 11 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PL00232
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 25 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PL00453
Slight
Dennis crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 18 December 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60775
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 28 May 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PL0257
Serious
Honda crash on the A21 in Lewisham, 18 January 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60019
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2016010002228 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.