Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE28 on 20 May 2017 at 20:45 involving a Toyota Prius taxi
A Toyota Prius taxi hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 20:45 on Saturday 20 May 2017. A 10-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 May 2017
- Saturday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota Prius
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49276, longitude 0.07909, in the SE28 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Thamesmead, Greenwich, SE28 0DA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010038645
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by school crossing patrol
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
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, 51 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 August 2010.
Serious
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Slight
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Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 27 March 2008
76 m awayRef 200801RG40182
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 19 January 2005
98 m awayRef 200501RG40050
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 3 April 1987
100 m awayRef 198701RW00140
Serious
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 February 2005
103 m awayRef 200501RG40133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010038645 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.