A222 crash in Bexley on 18 December 2014 at 14:30 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Ford Transit lorry were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bexley at 14:30 on Thursday 18 December 2014. The 34-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Corsa and the 30-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit lorry were 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
- 18 Dec 2014
- Thursday, 14:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43929, longitude 0.12414, in the DA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blendon & Penhill, Bexley, DA14 4NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RY10524
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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
- 5%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 95%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 1986.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A222 in Bexley, 5 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RY00443
Serious
Car crash on the A222 in Bexley, 19 May 1989
10 m awayRef 198901RY00366
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A222 in Bexley, 21 November 1993
14 m awayRef 199301RY00745
Slight
Mercedes 200 crash on the A222 in Bexley, 17 August 1996
14 m awayRef 199601RY00533
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the A222 in Bexley, 3 July 1991
14 m awayRef 199101RY00380
Slight
Ford C-Max crash on the A222 in Bexley, 15 November 2016
20 m awayRef 2016010001784
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, goods vehicle occupant (3.5 to 7.5 tonnes), in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 201401RY10524 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 2014.