Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA7 on 22 September 1987 at 17:57 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bexley at 17:57 on Tuesday 22 September 1987. A 7-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
- 22 Sep 1987
- Tuesday, 17:57
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46881, longitude 0.16537, 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
- 198701RY00686
- 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
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 198701RY00686 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.