C road crash in Bexley DA18 on 18 November 1997 at 08:52 involving an Austin Morris Mini
An Austin Morris Mini hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bexley at 08:52 on Tuesday 18 November 1997. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1997
- Tuesday, 08:52
- Vehicles
- 1
- Austin Morris Mini
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49637, longitude 0.1285, in the DA18 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RA00440
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 July 1987.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 2 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RW00297
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RA00283
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 May 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010RW0226
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 20 December 1991
10 m awayRef 199101RA00575
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 December 1998
14 m awayRef 199801RA00459
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 23 October 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010RW0528
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Austin Morris Mini
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Austin Morris Mini)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199701RA00440 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.