Serious C road crash in Southwark SE16 on 23 August 2018 at 11:59 involving a Nissan E-NV200 van
A Nissan E-NV200 van and a Citroen C5 were involved in a crash on a C road in Southwark at 11:59 on Thursday 23 August 2018. The 51-year-old male driver of the Citroen C5 was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Aug 2018
- Thursday, 11:59
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan E-NV200 and Citroen C5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4928, longitude -0.06511, in the SE16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the North Bermondsey, Southwark, SE16 2FS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010128606
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 October 2005.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Southwark, 12 October 2005
At the same spotRef 200501MM71091
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Southwark, 18 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MD00073
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on a C road in Southwark, 10 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199901MD00139
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on a C road in Southwark, 12 October 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010603350
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Southwark, 2 April 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010567614
Slight
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Southwark, 7 July 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010192116
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan E-NV200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- 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
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Electric
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Citroen C5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C5)
- 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 2018010128606 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Southwark road accident statistics for 2018.