B208 crash in Greenwich on 25 October 2012 at 22:15 involving a Ford Galaxy taxi
A Ford Galaxy taxi and a Honda ANF125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B208 in Greenwich at 22:15 on Thursday 25 October 2012. The 25-year-old male rider of the Honda ANF125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 2012
- Thursday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and Honda ANF125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48112, longitude -0.01491, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Greenwich Park, Greenwich, SE10 8JA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RG40688
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 208
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 200
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 2025.
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A200 in Greenwich, 30 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010607989
Slight
Lorry crash on the B208 in Greenwich, 1 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RG40065
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the B208 in Greenwich, 9 October 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RG00591
Serious
Chrysler crash on the B208 in Greenwich, 29 March 2011
10 m awayRef 201101TB00502
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A200 in Greenwich, 21 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199601RG00036
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A200 in Greenwich, 10 April 1996
14 m awayRef 199601RG00192
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Honda ANF125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Honda ANF125)
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 201201RG40688 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 2012.