Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE9 on 29 October 2015 at 16:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
Two Volkswagen Polos were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 16:00 on Thursday 29 October 2015. The 21-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Oct 2015
- Thursday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4426, longitude 0.0421, 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 5QQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RG40688
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 November 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 19 November 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RD00759
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 15 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RG00257
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 30 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40753
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 7 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010568347
Slight
MG Montego crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 6 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101RG00290
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 7 March 1986
14 m awayRef 198601RD00139
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- 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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking on nearside (passenger side, nearest the kerb)
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201501RG40688 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.