A202 crash in Lambeth on 5 May 2018 at 14:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A202 in Lambeth at 14:30 on Saturday 5 May 2018. The 42-year-old female driver, a 15-year-old female passenger and a 45-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 May 2018
- Saturday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48677, longitude -0.12529, in the SW8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lambeth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Vauxhall, Lambeth, SW8 2JE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lambeth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010106064
- Council area
- Lambeth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 202
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 October 1993.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 4 October 1993
At the same spotRef 199301LK00322
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 30 June 2007
At the same spotRef 200701LX63066
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 9 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801LX00493
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 3 August 1994
At the same spotRef 199401LX00559
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 16 May 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010575374
Slight
Renault crash on the A202 in Lambeth, 21 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200101LX01360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010106064 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 2018.