Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE10 on 22 December 2014 at 17:30 involving a Land Rover Defender
A Land Rover Defender and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 17:30 on Monday 22 December 2014. The 16-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 2014
- Monday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Land Rover Defender and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48281, longitude -0.00318, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Greenwich, Greenwich, SE10 9PS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RG40767
- 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
- 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, street lights lit
- 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 23 December 2015.
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 23 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40748
Slight
Dennis crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 14 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200601RG40775
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 6 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RD00129
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 14 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401RG00202
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 26 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801RG00178
Slight
Honda crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 3 December 1990
At the same spotRef 199001RG00755
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Land Rover Defender
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 16 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 16, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (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 201401RG40767 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.