A2 crash in Greenwich on 1 October 1995 at 12:45 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A2 in Greenwich at 12:45 on Sunday 1 October 1995. The 24-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1995
- Sunday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kawasaki and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47191, longitude 0.00079, in the SE3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501PL00514
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2009.
Slight
Van crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 2 September 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PL60552
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 19 August 1990
10 m awayRef 199001RG00543
Slight
Honda FJS600 crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 9 September 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RG00640
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 8 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200401PL60430
Slight
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Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Lewisham, 6 July 1986
20 m awayRef 198601RD00414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 599 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 199501PL00514 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 1995.