A208 crash in Greenwich on 24 December 2001 at 14:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2001
- Monday, 14:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45191, longitude 0.0519, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eltham Town & Avery Hill, Greenwich, SE9 1DY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RG01249
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 15 September 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RG00624
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 24 April 1993
14 m awayRef 199301RG00210
Slight
Leyland crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 2 August 1999
20 m awayRef 199901RG00459
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 9 July 2025
22 m awayRef 2025010585718
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 18 March 2006
22 m awayRef 200601RG40195
Serious
Fiat Strada crash on the A208 in Greenwich, 15 August 1991
22 m awayRef 199101RG00426
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
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,119 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 200101RG01249 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 2001.