Serious A207 crash in Greenwich on 27 February 2009 at 13:05 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A207 in Greenwich at 13:05 on Friday 27 February 2009. The 38-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Feb 2009
- Friday, 13:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4751, longitude 0.02673, 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
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901RG40306
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 October 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 16 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010139513
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 16 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801RD00116
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 27 November 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010073549
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 19 September 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RG40537
Slight
Yamaha YP crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 28 April 2024
17 m awayRef 2024010507351
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A207 in Greenwich, 26 December 2016
20 m awayRef 2016010008782
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 200901RG40306 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 2009.