A223 crash in Bexley on 14 December 2014 at 10:03 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Smart Fortwo were involved in a crash on the A223 in Bexley at 10:03 on Sunday 14 December 2014. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Smart Fortwo was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2014
- Sunday, 10:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Smart Fortwo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41602, longitude 0.12795, in the DA14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Sidcup, Bexley, DA14 5FA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401RY19083
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 223
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 March 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A223 in Bexley, 25 March 1994
14 m awayRef 199401RY00222
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bexley, 22 May 1988
20 m awayRef 198801RY00343
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bexley, 23 May 1987
20 m awayRef 198701RY00359
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bexley, 28 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198401RY00392
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bexley, 12 October 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010RY0758
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bexley, 30 June 1983
28 m awayRef 1983010RY0477
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Smart Fortwo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201401RY19083 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.