Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA7 on 25 February 2007 at 15:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a BMW 1 Series were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 15:15 on Sunday 25 February 2007. An 18-year-old female passenger in the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured and a 22-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 25 Feb 2007
- Sunday, 15:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and BMW 1 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47662, longitude 0.12876, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, SE2 0DL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701RY10042
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 May 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 14 May 1984
10 m awayRef 198401RY00348
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 3 May 1982
54 m awayRef 1982010RY0329
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 3 May 1985
72 m awayRef 198501RY00324
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 31 March 2001
72 m awayRef 200101RY00223
Slight
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 28 December 1994
94 m awayRef 199401RY00855
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Bexley, 4 February 1986
98 m awayRef 198601RY00100
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- 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 200701RY10042 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 2007.