C road crash in Bexley DA16 on 8 May 1997 at 16:45 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on a C road in Bexley at 16:45 on Thursday 8 May 1997. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 1997
- Thursday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47089, longitude 0.10528, in the DA16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RY00290
- 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
- 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 10 July 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 10 July 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010RY0531
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 March 2015
10 m awayRef 201501RY10098
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 2 May 1994
20 m awayRef 199401RY00288
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 17 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199701RY00541
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 14 June 1986
22 m awayRef 198601RY00466
Serious
Renault 25 crash on a C road in Bexley, 13 June 1995
30 m awayRef 199501RY00379
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
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 199701RY00290 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.