Serious C road crash in Greenwich SE10 on 18 November 1987 at 14:25 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Greenwich at 14:25 on Wednesday 18 November 1987. A 25-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 1987
- Wednesday, 14:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49432, longitude 0.00537, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701RD00766
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 July 2018.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 20 July 2018
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Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 10 February 2016
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Serious
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 28 October 2024
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Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 22 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199701RG00276
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 30 June 1997
14 m awayRef 199701RG00370
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 5 January 1988
14 m awayRef 198801RD00009
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 25, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198701RD00766 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 1987.