Serious C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 5 October 1985 at 13:50 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bexley at 13:50 on Saturday 5 October 1985. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47402, longitude 0.12659, 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
- 198501RY00753
- 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
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 3 February 1986.
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 3 February 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00103
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 17 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00708
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501RY00713
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 October 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00794
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Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 June 2014
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 16 December 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00819
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 15, 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 198501RY00753 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.