A23 crash in Lambeth on 30 December 2016 at 21:00 involving a Honda Civic
A Honda Civic and a Ford Galaxy taxi were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 21:00 on Friday 30 December 2016. The 28-year-old male driver of the Honda Civic was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2016
- Friday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda Civic and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48856, longitude -0.11139, in the SE11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Newington, Southwark, SE17 3RF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010009269
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 3204
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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 1990.
Serious
Car crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 10 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001LK00176
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 22 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301LX00496
Serious
Honda CD250U crash on the A3204 in Lambeth, 18 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601LX00786
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 29 September 1993
At the same spotRef 199301LK00334
Slight
Toyota crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 7 July 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010585277
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3204 in Lambeth, 18 December 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010225894
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Honda Civic)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016010009269 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.