Serious A205 crash in Greenwich on 13 October 1992 at 21:42 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Granada were involved in a crash on the A205 in Greenwich at 21:42 on Tuesday 13 October 1992. The 29-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 13 Oct 1992
- Tuesday, 21:42
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Granada
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4618, longitude 0.04987, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201RG00580
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2004.
Slight
Bus crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 6 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RG40420
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 5 September 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RW0467
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 5 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RD00652
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 3 September 2014
10 m awayRef 201401RG40717
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 20 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RA00118
Slight
Leyland crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 16 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199201RG00556
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199201RG00580 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 1992.