A209 crash in Greenwich on 17 June 2015 at 21:12 involving a KTM 690 SMC motorcycle
A car and a KTM 690 SMC motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A209 in Greenwich at 21:12 on Wednesday 17 June 2015. The 22-year-old male rider of the KTM 690 SMC motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2015
- Wednesday, 21:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and KTM 690 SMC
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47762, longitude 0.10646, in the SE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plumstead Common, Greenwich, SE2 0PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RG40427
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 209
- 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
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 September 1987.
Serious
Bus crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 19 September 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RW00427
Slight
Volvo crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 6 November 1992
10 m awayRef 199201RA00501
Serious
Car crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 19 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198801RW00242
Fatal
Car crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 21 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401RW00672
Slight
Car crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 20 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010RW0706
Slight
Car crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 10 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501RW00221
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 53 years
Vehicle 2: KTM 690 SMC
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 654 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (KTM 690 SMC)
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 201501RG40427 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.