Serious B250 crash in Bexley on 28 March 1996 at 09:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the B250 in Bexley at 09:30 on Thursday 28 March 1996. The 31-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Mar 1996
- Thursday, 09:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48726, longitude 0.14968, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601RY00217
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 250
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,593 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199601RY00217 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 1996.