A209 crash in Bexley on 31 July 2003 at 12:05 involving a Volkswagen Golf
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Jul 2003
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46715, longitude 0.11046, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 3QH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RY00355
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 209
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 23 October 1988.
Serious
Car crash on the A209 in Bexley, 23 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801RY00741
Slight
Car crash on the A209 in Bexley, 28 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00192
Slight
Car crash on the A209 in Bexley, 3 March 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00180
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A209 in Bexley, 18 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001RY00268
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A209 in Bexley, 11 July 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010585963
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A209 in Bexley, 31 May 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010446139
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 200301RY00355 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 2003.