C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 21 April 2007 at 00:39 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on a C road in Bexley at 00:39 on Saturday 21 April 2007. The 37-year-old male driver 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
- 21 Apr 2007
- Saturday, 00:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47092, longitude 0.13036, 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, DA7 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200701RY10149
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1997.
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Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 24 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199701RY00562
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Volvo crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 January 2009
22 m awayRef 200901RY10080
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 1 August 1984
22 m awayRef 198401RY00592
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 15 June 1982
30 m awayRef 1982010RY0458
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Volkswagen Urban crash on a C road in Bexley, 26 February 2011
30 m awayRef 201101RY10067
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Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Bexley, 18 February 2003
30 m awayRef 200301RY00125
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200701RY10149 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.