A102 crash in Greenwich on 16 April 2007 at 17:20 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A Vauxhall Astra van and a car were involved in a crash on the A102 in Greenwich at 17:20 on Monday 16 April 2007. The 39-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Apr 2007
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49472, longitude 0.00469, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenwich Peninsula, Greenwich, SE10 0ZQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701RG40253
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- 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 28 June 1992.
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 28 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201RG00374
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 18 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RG00688
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 2 July 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010452746
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 7 June 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RG00284
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 10 September 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RG00548
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 17 October 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RG40694
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 39, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200701RG40253 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 2007.