A206 crash in Bexley on 8 September 1983 at 16:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A206 in Bexley at 16:05 on Thursday 8 September 1983. A 1-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 25-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 1983
- Thursday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48146, longitude 0.12795, in the SE2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010RY0643
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 6 December 1985.
Fatal
Van crash on the A206 in Bexley, 6 December 1985
14 m awayRef 198501RY00965
Slight
Rover 25 crash on the A206 in Bexley, 6 August 2006
28 m awayRef 200601RY10363
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A206 in Bexley, 26 June 1991
36 m awayRef 199101RY00368
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A206 in Bexley, 25 January 2013
45 m awayRef 201301RY10010
Serious
Renault 21 crash on the A206 in Bexley, 7 January 1991
51 m awayRef 199101RY00012
Slight
MG 3 crash on the A206 in Bexley, 2 May 2025
53 m awayRef 2025010572726
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 1, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 1983010RY0643 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bexley road accident statistics for 1983.