A221 crash in Bexley on 19 May 2013 at 16:05 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series, a Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Mondeo were involved in a crash on the A221 in Bexley at 16:05 on Sunday 19 May 2013. The 32-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series, a 30-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Corsa and the 35-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 May 2013
- Sunday, 16:05
- Vehicles
- 3
- BMW 3 Series and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45316, longitude 0.12292, in the DA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crook Log, Bexley, DA6 8JE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201301RY10174
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 221
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 October 1999.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A221 in Bexley, 30 October 1999
10 m awayRef 199901RY00660
Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A221 in Bexley, 13 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200201RY00509
Slight
Ford crash on the A221 in Bexley, 18 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199301RY00661
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on the A221 in Bexley, 11 February 2016
14 m awayRef 201601RY10039
Serious
Hillman Avenger crash on the A221 in Bexley, 31 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199001RY00402
Serious
Kawasaki EX500 crash on the A221 in Bexley, 19 June 2003
22 m awayRef 200301RY00307
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,798 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 201301RY10174 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 2013.