A207 crash in Greenwich on 23 April 2003 at 14:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Mercedes 200 van were involved in a crash on the A207 in Greenwich at 14:10 on Wednesday 23 April 2003. The 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series 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
- 23 Apr 2003
- Wednesday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Mercedes 200
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4745, longitude 0.03549, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Charlton Hornfair, Greenwich, SE3 8SY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RG00276
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- 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 22 June 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 22 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40354
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 10 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RD0471
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 2 June 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RD00357
Serious
Daewoo Nubira crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 18 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601RG40459
Slight
Seat Alhambra crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 11 March 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40135
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 23 October 2012
At the same spotRef 201201RG40650
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 200
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 200301RG00276 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 2003.