A23 crash in Lambeth on 21 October 2017 at 19:00 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Honda Civic were involved in a crash on the A23 in Lambeth at 19:00 on Saturday 21 October 2017. A 21-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2017
- Saturday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Honda Civic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41427, longitude -0.12423, in the SW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Croydon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Streatham Common & Vale, Lambeth, SW16 5LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010066072
- 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
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 273
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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 slight injury crash on 9 March 2007.
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 9 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200701LX50152
Slight
Minibus crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 22 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501LS00105
Slight
Van crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 19 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601LS00349
Fatal
Car crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 8 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010LS0633
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 26 November 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010003581
Slight
Bentley Continental crash on the A23 in Lambeth, 23 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101ZD30995
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Civic
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat 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 2017010066072 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 2017.