C road crash in Bexley DA8 on 17 October 1997 at 10:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on a C road in Bexley at 10:10 on Friday 17 October 1997. The 42-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 1997
- Friday, 10:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48075, longitude 0.18106, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701RY00645
- 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
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 252
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 8 January 2000.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B252 in Bexley, 8 January 2000
At the same spotRef 200001RY00015
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B252 in Bexley, 29 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401RY10264
Slight
Mitsubishi Shogun crash on the B252 in Bexley, 15 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RY00278
Serious
Skoda 105 crash on a C road in Bexley, 31 July 1991
10 m awayRef 199101RY00450
Slight
Car crash on the B252 in Bexley, 25 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RY00826
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the B252 in Bexley, 10 December 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RY00766
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,766 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 199701RY00645 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.