A210 crash in Greenwich on 9 May 2018 at 14:00 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Piaggio Liberty motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A210 in Greenwich at 14:00 on Wednesday 9 May 2018. The 30-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Liberty motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2018
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Piaggio Liberty
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4512, longitude 0.04971, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eltham Town & Avery Hill, Greenwich, SE9 1DY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010106931
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 210
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 13 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RD0101
Slight
Bus crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 13 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200601RG40141
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 2 May 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RG00255
Serious
Car crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 1 October 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010601136
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 16 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010597952
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A210 in Greenwich, 30 April 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010572573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Liberty
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Liberty)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018010106931 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 2018.