Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 18 January 1985 at 19:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bexley at 19:00 on Friday 18 January 1985. A 27-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jan 1985
- Friday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46471, longitude 0.15856, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RY00036
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1997.
Slight
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Serious
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 12 May 1995
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 31 December 1983
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Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on a C road in Bexley, 24 October 1998
36 m awayRef 199801RY00635
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 March 1995
41 m awayRef 199501RY00194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 27, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198501RY00036 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 1985.