A222 crash in Bexley on 22 October 1999 at 23:55 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a car were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bexley at 23:55 on Friday 22 October 1999. An 18-year-old female passenger in the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1999
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44148, longitude 0.14741, in the DA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199901RY00655
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2006.
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A222 in Bexley, 14 April 2006
At the same spotRef 200601RY10150
Slight
Optare Excel crash on the A222 in Bexley, 10 August 1998
10 m awayRef 199801RY00471
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A222 in Bexley, 5 July 2005
10 m awayRef 200501RY10325
Slight
Honda VFR400R crash on the A222 in Bexley, 3 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199701RY00276
Slight
Renault Zoe crash on the A222 in Bexley, 14 May 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010574928
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A222 in Bexley, 3 January 2007
22 m awayRef 200701RY10070
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 54 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 199901RY00655 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 1999.