Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 1 September 1985 at 17:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 17:00 on Sunday 1 September 1985. A 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 and a 2-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 1985
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4888, longitude 0.09458, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RW00416
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Road sign or marking defective or obscured
- Carriageway hazards
- Permanent road signing or markings defective or obscured or inadequate
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 2, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 198501RW00416 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 1985.