A2041 crash in Greenwich on 24 December 2001 at 17:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Toyota Carina were involved in a crash on the A2041 in Greenwich at 17:05 on Monday 24 December 2001. The 27-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2001
- Monday, 17:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Toyota Carina
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49511, longitude 0.12097, in the SE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thamesmead East, Bexley, SE2 9FL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RY00822
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2041
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2004.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 29 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RY10244
Slight
Bus crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 16 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RY00067
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 11 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RG40447
Slight
Bus crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 8 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200101RY00101
Slight
Toyota crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 11 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RA00218
Serious
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A2041 in Greenwich, 11 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RA00338
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,991 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Carina
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 200101RY00822 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.