Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE18 on 20 April 2017 at 13:00 involving a Volvo bus
A Volvo bus crashed on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 13:00 on Thursday 20 April 2017. A male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 2017
- Thursday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4777, longitude 0.05119, 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 4JN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010035410
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
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 9 March 2003.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 9 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RG00155
Slight
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 25 April 2003
20 m awayRef 200301RG00283
Slight
Leyland crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 12 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199601RA00528
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 July 2005
22 m awayRef 200501RG40520
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 13 October 2022
40 m awayRef 2022010404407
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 2 December 2025
55 m awayRef 2025010613167
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 9,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Boarding
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017010035410 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.