A209 crash in Greenwich on 6 September 2018 at 06:02 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A209 in Greenwich at 06:02 on Thursday 6 September 2018. The 58-year-old male driver of the Ford Kuga and the 36-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Sep 2018
- Thursday, 06:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Kuga and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4791, longitude 0.10382, in the SE18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plumstead & Glyndon, Greenwich, SE18 1LL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010130818
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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 20 October 2004.
Slight
Bus crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 20 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RG40589
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 16 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401RA00111
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 24 April 2010
At the same spotRef 201001RG40241
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 20 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RG00691
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Greenwich, 20 February 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010020029
Slight
Scania crash on the A209 in Greenwich, 21 February 2014
At the same spotRef 201401RG40090
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2018010130818 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.