Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 5 September 2003 at 17:35 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Vauxhall Vectra were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 17:35 on Friday 5 September 2003. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a 33-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Vectra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2003
- Friday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49751, longitude 0.16186, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belvedere, Bexley, DA17 6GN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RY00386
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1983.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010RY0874
Slight
Mazda RX8 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 June 2016
22 m awayRef 201601RY10200
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 22 April 1996
30 m awayRef 199601RY00281
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 December 2006
41 m awayRef 200601RY10613
Serious
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 6 December 2004
41 m awayRef 200401TD00437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 March 1995
41 m awayRef 199501RY00202
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
- 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 200301RY00386 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.