Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 5 July 2013 at 16:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 16:45 on Friday 5 July 2013. The 18-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2013
- Friday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47779, longitude 0.09353, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plumstead Common, Greenwich, SE18 2JY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301RG40303
- 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
- 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
- 16%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 84%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 22 April 1987
22 m awayRef 198701RW00159
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 25 May 1982
22 m awayRef 1982010RW0267
Slight
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 17 May 1990
22 m awayRef 199001RW00243
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 31 December 1991
30 m awayRef 199101RA00582
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 29 November 1984
32 m awayRef 198401RW00616
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 26 November 1997
32 m awayRef 199701RA00454
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 201301RG40303 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 2013.