A2000 crash in Bexley on 12 November 2001 at 17:00 involving an Iveco-Ford lorry
An Iveco-Ford lorry, a Mercedes 190 and a car were involved in a crash on the A2000 in Bexley at 17:00 on Monday 12 November 2001. The 42-year-old male driver of the Mercedes 190 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 2001
- Monday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Iveco-Ford and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46086, longitude 0.1787, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnehurst, Bexley, DA7 6NN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101RY00723
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2000
- 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
- Fine, 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 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 14 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401RY00814
Serious
Leyland crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 14 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201RY00826
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 4 May 1998
14 m awayRef 199801RY00255
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 29 August 1985
20 m awayRef 198501RY00656
Serious
Ford Orion crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 30 October 2001
28 m awayRef 200101RY00664
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A2000 in Bexley, 13 August 2020
35 m awayRef 2020010261837
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Iveco-Ford
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes 190
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mercedes 190)
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 200101RY00723 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.