Unclassified road crash in Southwark SE17 on 9 March 2024 at 21:45 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A Jeep Cherokee and a bicycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Southwark at 21:45 on Saturday 9 March 2024. The 14-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Mar 2024
- Saturday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Jeep Cherokee and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48714, longitude -0.08468, in the SE17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Faraday, Southwark, SE17 2EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010498902
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 29 July 1984
6 m awayRef 198401MS00279
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 4 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010595675
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 30 November 1988
11 m awayRef 198801MS00515
Slight
Honda CG125B crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 8 December 1997
12 m awayRef 199701MS00515
Slight
Seat Toledo crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 23 November 2002
12 m awayRef 200201MM01466
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Southwark, 25 June 1993
12 m awayRef 199301MS00260
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,184 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 2024010498902 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 2024.