A2 crash in Greenwich on 22 April 2015 at 09:07 involving a Ford Focus
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Apr 2015
- Wednesday, 09:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47399, longitude -0.02086, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RG40208
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- 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
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 29 December 2025.
Serious
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Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 4 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201101RG40027
Slight
Bus crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 20 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200601PL60678
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A206 in Greenwich, 21 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901RG00614
Serious
Honda VFR800F crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 22 September 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RG40382
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A2 in Greenwich, 10 March 1995
14 m awayRef 199501RG00137
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201501RG40208 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 2015.