C road crash in Bexley DA8 on 5 July 2001 at 21:05 involving a Rover 100 Series
A Rover 100 Series and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 21:05 on Thursday 5 July 2001. The 69-year-old male driver of the Rover 100 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jul 2001
- Thursday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Rover 100 Series and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46631, longitude 0.19048, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Slade Green & Northend, Bexley, DA8 2EG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RY00437
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 2002.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 26 January 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00043
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 October 2013
10 m awayRef 201301RY10383
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 August 1985
10 m awayRef 198501RY00655
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 November 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RY00759
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Bexley, 6 June 2021
11 m awayRef 2021010317625
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 17 June 2001
22 m awayRef 200101RY00368
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Rover 100 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,120 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 1,297 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 100 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 200101RY00437 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 2001.