C road crash in Bexley DA18 on 4 April 1997 at 09:00 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 09:00 on Friday 4 April 1997. The female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Apr 1997
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49628, longitude 0.12864, in the DA18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RA00152
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 1998.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 December 1998
At the same spotRef 199801RA00459
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199101RA00575
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 November 1997
14 m awayRef 199701RA00440
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 April 2012
14 m awayRef 201201RY10123
Serious
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 8 July 1993
14 m awayRef 199301RA00249
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 17 September 1996
20 m awayRef 199601RA00383
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199701RA00152 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 1997.