C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 7 October 2001 at 20:13 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Citroen Saxo were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 20:13 on Sunday 7 October 2001. The 24-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 23-year-old male driver of the Citroen Saxo were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Oct 2001
- Sunday, 20:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Citroen Saxo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45903, longitude 0.15601, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RY00605
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 13 August 1997.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 13 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00496
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Toyota Tercel crash on a C road in Bexley, 15 January 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RY00036
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Fiat Panda crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 November 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00737
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Van crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 March 1985
14 m awayRef 198501RY00155
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Rover Metro crash on a C road in Bexley, 15 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199201RY00439
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 26 June 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010RY0489
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Saxo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Saxo)
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 200101RY00605 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.