Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE3 on 12 June 2003 at 14:20 involving a Lexus GS300
A Lexus GS300 crashed on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 14:20 on Thursday 12 June 2003. The 68-year-old male driver 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
- 12 Jun 2003
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexus GS300
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46485, longitude 0.01634, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath, Lewisham, SE3 9HZ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RG00411
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1997.
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Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 17 May 1999
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexus GS300
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lexus GS300)
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 200301RG00411 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.