A223 crash in Bexley on 30 July 2002 at 20:10 involving a Vauxhall Nova
A Vauxhall Nova and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A223 in Bexley at 20:10 on Tuesday 30 July 2002. A female passenger in the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2002
- Tuesday, 20:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Nova and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4132, longitude 0.11488, in the DA14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 5FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PY00752
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 223
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2005.
Slight
Jaguar S Type crash on the A223 in Bexley, 6 May 2005
10 m awayRef 200501RY10228
Slight
Volkswagen Scirocco crash on the A223 in Bexley, 20 October 2018
14 m awayRef 2018010140316
Slight
Seat Arosa crash on the A223 in Bexley, 24 September 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010060661
Serious
Van crash on the A20 in Bexley, 11 January 1987
14 m awayRef 198701RY00014
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A223 in Bexley, 21 April 1995
22 m awayRef 199501RY00253
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A223 in Bexley, 30 August 2008
30 m awayRef 200801PY20466
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Nova)
- 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 200201PY00752 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 2002.