A207 crash in Bexley on 13 December 2008 at 19:17 involving a Seat Arosa
A Seat Arosa and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 19:17 on Saturday 13 December 2008. A 30-year-old female passenger in the Seat Arosa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Arosa and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46243, longitude 0.10765, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 3QH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801RY10532
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 207
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 209
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 November 2022.
Slight
E-scooter crash on the A207 in Bexley, 4 November 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010408454
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A207 in Bexley, 31 March 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010172414
Slight
Bus crash on the A207 in Bexley, 19 November 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00744
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A207 in Bexley, 28 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198801RY00429
Serious
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 1 July 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RY00467
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 2 April 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RY00224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Arosa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- 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
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Arosa)
- 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 200801RY10532 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.