Serious A2 crash in Bexley on 26 January 2010 at 08:30 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo, a Toyota Avensis and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A2 in Bexley at 08:30 on Tuesday 26 January 2010. The 37-year-old female driver of the Toyota Avensis and the 47-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo were seriously injured and the 24-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Jan 2010
- Tuesday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Mondeo and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44644, longitude 0.15614, in the DA5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's & St James, Bexley, DA5 1LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201001RY10037
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2015.
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A2 in Bexley, 30 September 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RY10359
Serious
Fiat Punto crash on the A2 in Bexley, 7 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200501RY10239
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A2 in Bexley, 7 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RY00147
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2 in Bexley, 27 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RY00442
Slight
Audi crash on the A223 in Bexley, 20 December 1994
14 m awayRef 199401RY00833
Slight
Volkswagen Lupo crash on the A2 in Bexley, 1 July 2006
14 m awayRef 200601RY10294
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Avensis)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
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 201001RY10037 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 2010.