A2213 crash in Greenwich on 6 October 2017 at 17:04 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A Piaggio Vespa motorcycle and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A2213 in Greenwich at 17:04 on Friday 6 October 2017. The 30-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 2017
- Friday, 17:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Vespa and Ford Mondeo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46131, longitude 0.02626, in the SE3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kidbrooke Village & Sutcliffe, Greenwich, SE3 9PP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010063044
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2213
- Road type
- Single 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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 1 October 1987.
Slight
Van crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 1 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701RD00651
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 9 October 2024
2 m awayRef 2024010536760
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 29 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401RG40192
Slight
Car crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 9 July 1988
10 m awayRef 198801RD00485
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 23 February 2025
11 m awayRef 2025010560602
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A2213 in Greenwich, 19 December 2023
14 m awayRef 2023010485049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Vespa)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010063044 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.