Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 18 September 1987 at 08:10 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 08:10 on Friday 18 September 1987. The 33-year-old male driver of the car and the 26-year-old male driver of the van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Sep 1987
- Friday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49458, longitude 0.15291, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701RY00684
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 1982.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 1 January 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010RY0002
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 5 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00718
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 October 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00733
Serious
Triumph Acclaim crash on a C road in Bexley, 16 September 1995
14 m awayRef 199501RA00366
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 12 February 1998
36 m awayRef 199801RA00052
Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 31 October 1992
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Van)
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 198701RY00684 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.