Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA8 on 23 July 2002 at 17:45 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bexley at 17:45 on Tuesday 23 July 2002. A 10-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Jul 2002
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes A Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47437, longitude 0.17286, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erith, Bexley, DA8 3DQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201RY00463
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 June 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 8 June 1988
32 m awayRef 198801RY00385
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 26 May 1999
57 m awayRef 199901RY00323
Serious
Peugeot 208 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 13 July 2025
66 m awayRef 2025010586510
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 13 May 1998
98 m awayRef 199801RY00299
Serious
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 15 August 1995
117 m awayRef 199501RY00522
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 8 May 1987
122 m awayRef 198701RY00370
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Mercedes A Class)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200201RY00463 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.