A207 crash in Bexley on 14 December 2012 at 14:35 involving a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry
Four vehicles, including a DAF Trucks FA 45LF lorry and a Peugeot 307, were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 14:35 on Friday 14 December 2012. The 36-year-old male driver of the Peugeot 307 and the 47-year-old male driver of the LDV 400 Series van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2012
- Friday, 14:35
- Vehicles
- 4
- DAF Trucks FA 45LF and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46052, longitude 0.11894, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crook Log, Bexley, DA7 4HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201RY10439
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 April 1996.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A207 in Bexley, 25 April 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RY00291
Slight
Van crash on the A207 in Bexley, 6 October 2010
At the same spotRef 201001RY10404
Slight
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 3 January 1988
At the same spotRef 198801RY00007
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A207 in Bexley, 26 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RY00822
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A207 in Bexley, 28 February 2011
At the same spotRef 201101RY10069
Serious
Car crash on the A207 in Bexley, 15 January 2019
1 m awayRef 2019010157685
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: DAF Trucks FA 45LF
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,920 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 307
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 4: LDV 400 Series
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 307)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 4 (LDV 400 Series)
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 201201RY10439 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.