C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 4 January 1987 at 17:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 17:00 on Sunday 4 January 1987. The 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jan 1987
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47637, longitude 0.13073, 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
- 198701RY00002
- 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 December 1995.
Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 8 December 1995
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Serious
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 23 May 1996
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 February 2019
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Slight
Daimler 4.2 crash on a C road in Bexley, 19 August 1994
54 m awayRef 199401RY00511
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Bexley, 25 November 1999
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Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 31 October 1984
81 m awayRef 198401RY00839
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Car)
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 198701RY00002 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 1987.