C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 21 April 1985 at 12:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bexley at 12:10 on Sunday 21 April 1985. An 8-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 1985
- Sunday, 12:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45898, longitude 0.16707, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RY00285
- 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
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 September 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bexley, 1 September 2000
14 m awayRef 200001RY00495
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 January 2016
14 m awayRef 201601RY10123
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 September 2008
20 m awayRef 200801RY10376
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Bexley, 22 January 2015
22 m awayRef 201501RY10049
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 19 October 1982
40 m awayRef 1982010RY0838
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bexley, 15 September 1991
40 m awayRef 199101RY00530
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, 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 198501RY00285 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.