A102 crash in Greenwich on 30 June 2003 at 22:00 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a car were involved in a crash on the A102 in Greenwich at 22:00 on Monday 30 June 2003. The 32-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jun 2003
- Monday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47678, longitude 0.02335, 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
- 200301TD00218
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 21 July 1998.
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 21 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801RG00373
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 10 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RD00639
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 26 December 2012
14 m awayRef 201201RG40717
Slight
Car crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 26 February 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010RD0139
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 26 June 2002
14 m awayRef 200201RG00545
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 30 October 1986
14 m awayRef 198601RD00700
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
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 200301TD00218 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.