A20 crash in Lewisham on 14 April 2016 at 18:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris and an Alexander Dennis bus were involved in a crash on the A20 in Lewisham at 18:20 on Thursday 14 April 2016. A 54-year-old female passenger in the Alexander Dennis bus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Apr 2016
- Thursday, 18:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Yaris and Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45853, longitude 0.00167, in the SE13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lee Green, Lewisham, SE13 5QF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601PL60232
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 2017.
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 23 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010079897
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010262581
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 30 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200301PL00299
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 2 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501PL00459
Serious
Optare Metrorider crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 30 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PL00283
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A20 in Lewisham, 18 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901PL00749
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,500 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 54, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Alexander Dennis)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 201601PL60232 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.