A205 crash in Southwark on 17 September 2025 at 10:40 involving a Mercedes C Class
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 2025
- Wednesday, 10:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44108, longitude -0.08923, in the SE21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Southwark. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dulwich Wood, Southwark, SE21 8SL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010599062
- Council area
- Southwark
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Second road class
- C
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 October 2024.
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A205 in Southwark, 4 October 2024
3 m awayRef 2024010536438
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A205 in Southwark, 9 April 1998
4 m awayRef 199801MM00153
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A205 in Southwark, 5 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020010264519
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A205 in Southwark, 4 September 2013
4 m awayRef 201301TD00103
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A205 in Southwark, 17 March 1994
4 m awayRef 199401MM00129
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A205 in Southwark, 15 October 2001
4 m awayRef 200101MM01502
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightAged 30, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2025010599062 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 2025.