C road crash in Bexley DA8 on 17 August 2012 at 13:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bexley at 13:00 on Friday 17 August 2012. An 8-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 17 Aug 2012
- Friday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46713, longitude 0.19008, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Slade Green & Northend, Bexley, DA8 2EG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RY10255
- 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
- 12%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 88%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 1996.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Bexley, 25 October 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RY00701
Slight
Lada Samara crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 July 1994
At the same spotRef 199401RY00464
Slight
Dennis crash on a C road in Bexley, 10 September 1999
10 m awayRef 199901RY00664
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bexley, 16 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00457
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 24 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00099
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 15 December 1987
14 m awayRef 198701RY00941
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201201RY10255 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.