A200 crash in Lewisham on 20 December 2018 at 23:38 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius and a Vauxhall Corsa were involved in a crash on the A200 in Lewisham at 23:38 on Thursday 20 December 2018. The 49-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 23:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48889, longitude -0.04036, in the SE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lewisham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Evelyn, Lewisham, SE8 5DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Lewisham
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010159025
- Council area
- Lewisham
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 200
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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 5 February 1996.
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 5 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PL00038
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 16 August 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PL00428
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 20 March 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PL60190
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 18 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PL00030
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 7 September 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010398108
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A200 in Lewisham, 9 December 1999
10 m awayRef 199901PL00879
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- 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 2018010159025 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.