Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA15 on 7 February 2008 at 12:57 involving an MG ZT
An MG ZT and a Citroen Xsara were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 12:57 on Thursday 7 February 2008. The 77-year-old male driver of the Citroen Xsara was seriously injured and the female driver of the MG ZT was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 7 Feb 2008
- Thursday, 12:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- MG ZT and Citroen Xsara
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43154, longitude 0.08523, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801RY10051
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 67 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 December 2004.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 December 2004
67 m awayRef 200401RY19008
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 27 July 1986
67 m awayRef 198601RY00569
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 8 June 2006
92 m awayRef 200601RY10306
Slight
Bedford crash on the A211 in Bexley, 13 February 1991
110 m awayRef 199101RY00084
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 October 1999
114 m awayRef 199901RY00658
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 9 February 2011
130 m awayRef 201101RY10018
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: MG ZT
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 2,497 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Xsara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (MG ZT)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 77, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen Xsara)
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 200801RY10051 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 2008.