A221 crash in Bexley on 1 November 2003 at 12:30 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A221 in Bexley at 12:30 on Saturday 1 November 2003. The 45-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus 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
- 1 Nov 2003
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45658, longitude 0.12307, in the DA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crook Log, Bexley, DA6 8JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301RY00466
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 221
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 July 1983.
Slight
Van crash on the A221 in Bexley, 1 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010RY0498
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A221 in Bexley, 30 May 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00425
Slight
Car crash on the A221 in Bexley, 31 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00239
Serious
Audi A1 crash on the A221 in Bexley, 13 February 2021
5 m awayRef 2021010292681
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A221 in Bexley, 11 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401RY00491
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A221 in Bexley, 30 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199501RY00216
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200301RY00466 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.