A205 crash in Lambeth on 24 December 2016 at 01:00 involving a Volkswagen Caddy
A Volkswagen Caddy and an Audi A6 were involved in a crash on the A205 in Lambeth at 01:00 on Saturday 24 December 2016. The 69-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2016
- Saturday, 01:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and Audi A6
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44089, longitude -0.1053, in the SE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Martin's, Lambeth, SE27 9BZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010008660
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 2020.
Slight
Nissan Note crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 16 June 2020
9 m awayRef 2020010251892
Slight
Piaggio B 125 crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 26 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401LX00269
Serious
Honda CB crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 23 April 2025
20 m awayRef 2025010571004
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 9 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200401LX50569
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 30 June 2009
22 m awayRef 200901LX50644
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the A205 in Lambeth, 13 January 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010553829
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi A6)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2016010008660 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Lambeth road accident statistics for 2016.