C road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 2 May 1997 at 08:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Greenwich at 08:20 on Friday 2 May 1997. A 68-year-old female pedestrian was 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
- 2 May 1997
- Friday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47878, longitude 0.10176, 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
- 199701RA00161
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 April 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Greenwich, 28 April 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RW00208
Slight
Ford KA crash on a C road in Greenwich, 24 December 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RG40637
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Greenwich, 7 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RA00474
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Greenwich, 4 May 2000
14 m awayRef 200001RG00377
Serious
Audi A3 crash on a C road in Greenwich, 13 November 2023
15 m awayRef 2023010477606
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Greenwich, 4 January 1985
20 m awayRef 198501RW00003
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 68, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199701RA00161 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 1997.