A208 crash in Greenwich on 22 December 1998 at 15:20 involving a Honda C90 motorcycle
A Honda C90 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A208 in Greenwich at 15:20 on Tuesday 22 December 1998. A 34-year-old female pedestrian and the 22-year-old male rider were 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
- 22 Dec 1998
- Tuesday, 15:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda C90
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45026, longitude 0.0518, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801RG00706
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 208
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 May 2025.
Slight
Mercedes Eqs Class crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 16 May 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010575360
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 22 January 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010356244
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 6 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RG40356
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 20 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198401RD00779
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 6 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RD00410
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 2 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RG00377
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda C90
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 85 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 34, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
Casualty 2: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda C90)
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 199801RG00706 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 1998.