B263 crash in Greenwich on 13 December 2014 at 00:45 involving a Skoda Fabia
A Skoda Fabia and a Ford Galaxy taxi were involved in a crash on the B263 in Greenwich at 00:45 on Saturday 13 December 2014. The 32-year-old female driver of the Skoda Fabia and the 56-year-old male driver of the Ford Galaxy taxi were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2014
- Saturday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Skoda Fabia and Ford Galaxy
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43093, longitude 0.06376, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mottingham, Coldharbour & New Eltham, Greenwich, SE9 3EP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RG40744
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 263
- 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
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2017.
Slight
Kawasaki EX650 crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 4 November 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010070863
Slight
Lexmoto Aura crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 25 September 2022
12 m awayRef 2022010401183
Serious
Yamaha XVS 650 crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 12 January 2001
14 m awayRef 200101RG00052
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 15 December 1990
14 m awayRef 199001RG00805
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 23 September 2023
14 m awayRef 2023010467888
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B263 in Greenwich, 22 October 2023
16 m awayRef 2023010473431
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Skoda Fabia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Galaxy
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Skoda Fabia)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 56, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Galaxy)
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 201401RG40744 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 2014.