A205 crash in Greenwich on 23 February 2019 at 18:35 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A205 in Greenwich at 18:35 on Saturday 23 February 2019. The 27-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2019
- Saturday, 18:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45393, longitude 0.03763, in the SE9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich. It is one of the crashes that make up the Eltham Page, Greenwich, SE9 6AU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010165198
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 2 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 July 1988.
Fatal
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 6 July 1988
2 m awayRef 198801RD00472
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 30 September 1990
2 m awayRef 199001RG00652
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 17 April 1982
2 m awayRef 1982010RD0245
Serious
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 20 October 1987
2 m awayRef 198701RD00707
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 16 July 1988
9 m awayRef 198801RD00487
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the A205 in Greenwich, 29 December 2016
11 m awayRef 2016010009158
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 27, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 2019010165198 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 2019.