Serious unclassified road crash in Greenwich SE7 on 22 December 2022 at 13:30 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich at 13:30 on Thursday 22 December 2022. The 56-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2022
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49364, longitude 0.03722, in the SE7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Greenwich.
Map of where the crash happened in Greenwich
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010417929
- Council area
- Greenwich
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 49 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 January 1995.
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 23 January 1995
49 m awayRef 199501RA00030
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 25 May 2025
67 m awayRef 2025010576852
Serious
Seat Leon crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 10 April 2023
67 m awayRef 2023010436750
Slight
Harley-Davidson crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 11 October 2002
100 m awayRef 200201RG00868
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 19 June 2023
107 m awayRef 2023010450144
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 24 January 1983
116 m awayRef 1983010RW0036
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 656 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 56, motorcyclist (50cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
- 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 2022010417929 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 2022.