A2208 crash in Southwark on 28 August 2022 at 12:22 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a BMW 8 Series were involved in a crash on the A2208 in Southwark at 12:22 on Sunday 28 August 2022. The 42-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Meriva was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2022
- Sunday, 12:22
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and BMW 8 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49052, longitude -0.04491, in the SE8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Evelyn, Lewisham, SE8 5DQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Southwark
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010396325
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 January 2013.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2208 in Southwark, 12 January 2013
7 m awayRef 201301MM70013
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2208 in Southwark, 16 May 1994
7 m awayRef 199401MD00234
Serious
Honda Prelude crash on the A2208 in Southwark, 1 February 2001
7 m awayRef 200101MM00192
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A2208 in Southwark, 7 August 1997
16 m awayRef 199701MD00462
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2208 in Southwark, 2 April 2005
20 m awayRef 200501MM70423
Serious
Car crash on the B207 in Southwark, 13 April 1985
25 m awayRef 198501MD00191
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 8 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- 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 2022010396325 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 2022.