Serious A200 crash in Greenwich on 15 September 1997 at 12:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta hit a pedestrian on the A200 in Greenwich at 12:35 on Monday 15 September 1997. The 29-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 16-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Sep 1997
- Monday, 12:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48172, longitude -0.01002, 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
- 199701RG00547
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 200
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 200
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,392 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199701RG00547 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.