A206 crash in Greenwich on 17 October 2012 at 20:01 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A motorcycle, a Vauxhall Vectra and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A206 in Greenwich at 20:01 on Wednesday 17 October 2012. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 2012
- Wednesday, 20:01
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Vectra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4811, longitude -0.00829, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RG49022
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 206
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 10%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 90%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 June 2015.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 11 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40355
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 26 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RG01103
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 13 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RD00684
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 27 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201201RG40237
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 19 September 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010533260
Slight
Iveco Daily crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 28 November 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010480723
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201201RG49022 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.