A205 crash in Greenwich on 23 March 2017 at 18:03 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2017
- Thursday, 18:03
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48973, longitude 0.06239, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Woolwich Arsenal, Greenwich, SE18 6PQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010027578
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 November 2015.
Slight
Scania crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 10 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RG40686
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 6 May 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RA00193
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 21 September 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RA00356
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 7 February 2025
26 m awayRef 2025010558061
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 7 April 2005
30 m awayRef 200501RG40255
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 20 November 2007
30 m awayRef 200701RG40517
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 22, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most 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 2017010027578 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 2017.