A205 crash in Greenwich on 29 December 2016 at 15:10 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500, a Volkswagen Golf and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A205 in Greenwich at 15:10 on Thursday 29 December 2016. The 24-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 and an 8-year-old male passenger in the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 2016
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Fiat 500 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45378, longitude 0.03759, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eltham Page, Greenwich, SE9 6AU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010009158
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2001.
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 21 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101RG00794
Slight
Mazda 6 crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 26 June 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RG40369
Serious
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 20 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RD00707
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 8 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RD00827
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 17 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010RD0245
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 27 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501RG00717
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Single trailer
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,402 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat 500)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 8, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
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 2016010009158 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 2016.