Unclassified road crash in Lewisham SE6 on 23 October 2017 at 17:50 involving a Peugeot Bipper van
A Peugeot Bipper van and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham at 17:50 on Monday 23 October 2017. The 44-year-old male driver of the Peugeot Bipper van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Oct 2017
- Monday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot Bipper and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44358, longitude -0.00949, in the SE6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Rushey Green, Lewisham, SE6 2EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010066238
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 5 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PD00091
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 30 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198601PD00867
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 28 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010PD0905
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 19 October 1996
10 m awayRef 199601PD00541
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 28 June 1988
41 m awayRef 198801PD00393
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 3 December 2025
44 m awayRef 2025010613699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot Bipper
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot Bipper)
- 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 2017010066238 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 2017.