Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE7 on 7 December 2012 at 17:15 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 17:15 on Friday 7 December 2012. The 43-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2012
- Friday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4814, longitude 0.0211, in the SE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackheath Westcombe, Greenwich, SE3 7NA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RG49012
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1993.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 20 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RG00142
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 14 May 1988
14 m awayRef 198801RD00325
Serious
Car crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 16 January 1987
22 m awayRef 198701RD00026
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 31 August 1987
22 m awayRef 198701RD00576
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 27 March 2018
32 m awayRef 2018010098574
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 22 June 2024
56 m awayRef 2024010517756
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,686 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car 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 201201RG49012 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.