Serious A207 crash in Greenwich on 16 November 1983 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A207 in Greenwich at 17:15 on Wednesday 16 November 1983. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Nov 1983
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47446, longitude 0.03575, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010RD0726
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 2 October 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010RD0628
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 6 December 2025
1 m awayRef 2025010613867
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 19 November 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RG00616
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 23 April 1995
10 m awayRef 199501RG00247
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 9 May 2010
10 m awayRef 201001RG40288
Serious
Honda Civic crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 18 October 2000
10 m awayRef 200001RG00973
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1983010RD0726 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Greenwich road accident statistics for 1983.