Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA16 on 3 October 1985 at 08:00 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bexley at 08:00 on Thursday 3 October 1985. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 3 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46563, longitude 0.10778, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501RY00748
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 December 1986
14 m awayRef 198601RY01032
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 28 October 2024
25 m awayRef 2024010540344
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 19 September 1988
42 m awayRef 198801RY00641
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 16 June 1990
50 m awayRef 199001RY00447
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 24 March 1993
60 m awayRef 199301RY00173
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 1 October 1998
64 m awayRef 199801RY00576
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198501RY00748 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.