A212 crash in Lewisham on 5 January 2018 at 23:34 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A212 in Lewisham at 23:34 on Friday 5 January 2018. A 27-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jan 2018
- Friday, 23:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42569, longitude -0.04724, in the SE26 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sydenham, Lewisham, SE26 4ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010081802
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Unclassified
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 serious injury crash on 22 March 2002.
Serious
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Lewisham, 22 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PL00274
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 8 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PD00390
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 5 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198601PD00209
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 16 September 2016
At the same spotRef 2016010018505
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 2 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PD00342
Slight
Car crash on the A212 in Lewisham, 30 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PD00199
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010081802 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 2018.