Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE3 on 18 December 2017 at 21:30 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 21:30 on Monday 18 December 2017. The 24-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2017
- Monday, 21:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46808, longitude 0.03002, 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
- 2017010078911
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 4 June 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RW00256
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 8 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RG49196
Serious
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Greenwich, 17 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RG00083
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 13 July 2002
14 m awayRef 200201RG00593
Serious
E-scooter crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 10 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010568820
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 28 January 1994
20 m awayRef 199401RG00050
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017010078911 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.