A206 crash in Greenwich on 20 December 2005 at 19:10 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 19:10 on Tuesday 20 December 2005. The 31-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2005
- Tuesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48561, longitude 0.00674, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Greenwich, Greenwich, SE10 0JL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501RG40862
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 August 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 3 August 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RG00512
Slight
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 13 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199301RG00594
Slight
Renault crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 9 November 2007
At the same spotRef 200701RG40471
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 10 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010585894
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 28 September 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RD00604
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 5 January 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RG00020
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 31, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200501RG40862 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 2005.