Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE2 on 16 December 2008 at 16:35 involving a Peugeot 307
A Peugeot 307 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 16:35 on Tuesday 16 December 2008. The 20-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 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
- 16 Dec 2008
- Tuesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Peugeot 307 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48925, longitude 0.10183, in the SE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plumstead & Glyndon, Greenwich, SE18 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801RG40764
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 November 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 15 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199901RG00825
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 2 May 1992
32 m awayRef 199201RA00210
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 16 August 1993
61 m awayRef 199301RA00313
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 12 June 1998
61 m awayRef 199801RA00219
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 6 August 2025
67 m awayRef 2025010609256
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 23 May 2024
67 m awayRef 2024010512696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 307)
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 200801RG40764 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 2008.