A206 crash in Greenwich on 2 August 2002 at 07:30 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a car were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 07:30 on Friday 2 August 2002. A 26-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort van 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
- 2 Aug 2002
- Friday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.484, longitude 0.1085, in the SE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plumstead & Glyndon, Greenwich, SE18 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201RG00645
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 28 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RW00261
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 17 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200701RG40045
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 13 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701RG40308
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 22 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010195214
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 28 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RG00970
Slight
Ford crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 28 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RA00195
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200201RG00645 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 2002.