A102 crash in Greenwich on 31 December 2018 at 05:00 involving a Toyota Auris taxi
A Toyota Auris taxi and another vehicle were involved in a crash on the A102 in Greenwich at 05:00 on Monday 31 December 2018. The 55-year-old male driver of the Toyota Auris taxi was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2018
- Monday, 05:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Auris and other vehicle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48776, longitude 0.01548, 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 0JL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010155060
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 102
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 2020.
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 14 May 2020
1 m awayRef 2020010247701
Slight
Mercedes Cla Class crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 29 April 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010440282
Slight
Car crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 7 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RD00263
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 7 February 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010088566
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on the A102(M) in Greenwich, 11 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RG00013
Slight
Citroen Dispatch crash on the A102 in Greenwich, 26 February 2010
14 m awayRef 201001RG40095
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Auris
Taxi or private hire car
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Other vehicle
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, taxi or private hire car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Auris)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018010155060 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.