A211 crash in Bexley on 16 August 2002 at 22:00 involving a Rover Sterling
A car and a Rover Sterling were involved in a crash on the A211 in Bexley at 22:00 on Friday 16 August 2002. A 49-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Aug 2002
- Friday, 22:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Rover Sterling
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42633, longitude 0.09966, in the DA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 6BS area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201RY00562
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 211
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 July 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A211 in Bexley, 3 July 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00503
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A211 in Bexley, 29 April 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00288
Slight
Car crash on the A211 in Bexley, 30 August 2000
10 m awayRef 200001RY00489
Slight
Car crash on the A211 in Bexley, 24 March 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00191
Serious
Mitsubishi Outlander crash on the A211 in Bexley, 7 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RY10113
Slight
Car crash on the A211 in Bexley, 7 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RY00361
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Rover Sterling
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Engine capacity
- 2,675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- 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 200201RY00562 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.