A206 crash in Greenwich on 23 March 1997 at 16:00 involving a Ford Granada
A Ford Granada and a Rover 800 Series were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 16:00 on Sunday 23 March 1997. The 59-year-old male driver of the Ford Granada 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
- 23 Mar 1997
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Granada and Rover 800 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47671, longitude -0.017, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RG00168
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 208
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 8 June 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 8 June 1996
10 m awayRef 199601RG00276
Slight
Leyland crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 19 February 1992
10 m awayRef 199201RG00104
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 21 January 2011
10 m awayRef 201101RG40105
Serious
Vauxhall Meriva crash on the B208 in Greenwich, 19 February 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RG40121
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 15 September 1995
10 m awayRef 199501RG00509
Slight
Volkswagen Vento crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 13 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501RG00687
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Granada
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Rover 800 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Granada)
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 199701RG00168 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.