Serious C road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 24 May 2015 at 16:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Greenwich at 16:00 on Sunday 24 May 2015. The 90-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 May 2015
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48203, longitude 0.07094, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shooters Hill, Greenwich, SE18 3TE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RG40324
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- C
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 May 1995.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Greenwich, 13 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RA00201
Slight
Honda CB500S crash on a C road in Greenwich, 24 May 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RG00359
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Greenwich, 12 March 2014
At the same spotRef 201401RG40140
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Greenwich, 13 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200101RG00867
Slight
Italjet Dragster D125 crash on a C road in Greenwich, 11 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501RG40181
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Greenwich, 18 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RG40389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 90 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- 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
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 90, 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 201501RG40324 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.