C road crash in Bexley DA16 on 23 February 2012 at 16:15 involving a Volvo S40
A Volvo S40 crashed on a C road in Bexley at 16:15 on Thursday 23 February 2012. The 62-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 2012
- Thursday, 16:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo S40
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46119, longitude 0.09651, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RY10054
- 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
- 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
- 7%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 93%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 February 1996.
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Bexley, 27 February 1996
10 m awayRef 199601RY00148
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 26 June 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010RY0490
Slight
Gilera Runner 125 crash on a C road in Bexley, 4 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00792
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 March 1984
10 m awayRef 198401RY00191
Slight
Nissan Urvan crash on a C road in Bexley, 13 June 1992
14 m awayRef 199201RY00373
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 3 April 2005
14 m awayRef 200501RY10170
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo S40
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo S40)
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 201201RY10054 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 2012.