C road crash in Bexley DA15 on 8 March 1997 at 02:55 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Nissan Micra were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 02:55 on Saturday 8 March 1997. A 38-year-old male pedestrian hit by the Ford Mondeo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Mar 1997
- Saturday, 02:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Nissan Micra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43291, longitude 0.09735, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RY00153
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 December 1983.
Slight
Scooter crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 24 December 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010RY1000
Slight
Ford Fusion crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 January 2010
14 m awayRef 201001RY10121
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 1 September 2008
20 m awayRef 200801RY10343
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 23 November 1991
30 m awayRef 199101RY00692
Serious
Bedford crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 January 1993
32 m awayRef 199301RY00057
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 November 1982
61 m awayRef 1982010RY0970
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Micra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Open door of vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,235 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 199701RY00153 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.