Unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE10 on 17 May 2018 at 20:20 involving a Toyota Yaris
A Toyota Yaris, a taxi and a Yamaha NXC 125 motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 20:20 on Thursday 17 May 2018. The 51-year-old male rider of the Yamaha NXC 125 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
- 17 May 2018
- Thursday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Yaris and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48485, longitude 0.00167, in the SE10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Greenwich, Greenwich, SE10 9PS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010108631
- 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
- 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 phase at traffic signal
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 30 October 1990.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 30 October 1990, ref 199001RW00532
At the same spotRef 199001RW00532
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 12 December 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RG00692
Serious
Yamaha crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 19 March 1990
10 m awayRef 199001RG00193
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 30 October 1990, ref 199001RG00784
10 m awayRef 199001RG00784
Slight
Audi A4 crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 24 June 2014
14 m awayRef 201401RG40385
Slight
MG 3 crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 7 November 2025
30 m awayRef 2025010608049
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Taxi
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Yamaha NXC 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 51, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 3 (Yamaha NXC 125)
- 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 2018010108631 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.