Serious A206 crash in Bexley on 11 November 1998 at 00:05 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a car were involved in a crash on the A206 in Bexley at 00:05 on Wednesday 11 November 1998. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Nov 1998
- Wednesday, 00:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and car
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48514, longitude 0.15779, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801RY00663
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A206 in Bexley, 8 April 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RY00219
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A206 in Bexley, 11 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RY00337
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A206 in Bexley, 21 March 1984
10 m awayRef 198401RY00223
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A206 in Bexley, 27 March 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RY00173
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A206 in Bexley, 1 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00116
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A206 in Bexley, 5 August 1995
20 m awayRef 199501RY00498
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 199801RY00663 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 1998.