A206 crash in Greenwich on 28 November 2003 at 12:04 involving a Volvo 940
A Volvo 940, a BMW 3 Series and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 12:04 on Friday 28 November 2003. The male driver of the Volvo 940 and the 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Nov 2003
- Friday, 12:04
- Vehicles
- 3
- Volvo 940 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48788, longitude 0.03147, in the SE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich, SE7 7QG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RG00894
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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 10 June 2003.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 10 June 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RG00408
Serious
Car crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 10 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801RD00018
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 11 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RD00355
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 26 November 2025
2 m awayRef 2025010614303
Slight
Volvo crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 20 April 2021
4 m awayRef 2021010302605
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 11 December 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010484695
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Volvo 940
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,316 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 3: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo 940)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200301RG00894 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.