C road crash in Bexley DA17 on 5 September 2008 at 15:10 involving a van
A van crashed on a C road in Bexley at 15:10 on Friday 5 September 2008. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Sep 2008
- Friday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49454, longitude 0.15178, 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
- 200801RY10341
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 December 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on a C road in Bexley, 12 December 2001
20 m awayRef 200101RY00782
Slight
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Slight
Ford Orion crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 31 October 1992
40 m awayRef 199201RA00487
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 4 December 2016
40 m awayRef 2016010005044
Serious
Mazda 2 crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 November 2021
40 m awayRef 2021010343182
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 16 August 1986
41 m awayRef 198601RW00419
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 200801RY10341 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.