A206 crash in Greenwich on 11 September 2006 at 10:24 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 10:24 on Monday 11 September 2006. The male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Sep 2006
- Monday, 10:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Dennis and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49095, longitude 0.07195, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woolwich Arsenal, Greenwich, SE18 6PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601RG40550
- 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
- Dual 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 1985.
Slight
Bus crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 9 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RW00100
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 9 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RW00392
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 18 August 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RW00407
Slight
Bus crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 17 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RW00333
Slight
Scania crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 27 February 2012
At the same spotRef 201201RG40115
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 29 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010602335
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 200601RG40550 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 2006.