A221 crash in Bexley on 2 May 2015 at 15:10 involving a Fiat 500
A car and a Fiat 500 were involved in a crash on the A221 in Bexley at 15:10 on Saturday 2 May 2015. The 58-year-old male driver of the car and the 19-year-old female driver of the Fiat 500 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
- 2 May 2015
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Fiat 500
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45574, longitude 0.12287, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Bexley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RY10153
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 January 1996.
Slight
Car crash on the A221 in Bexley, 26 January 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RY00064
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A221 in Bexley, 19 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00728
Serious
Volvo 460 crash on the A221 in Bexley, 20 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301RY00040
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A221 in Bexley, 27 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200901RY10362
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A221 in Bexley, 19 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RY62891
Slight
Car crash on the A221 in Bexley, 30 June 1992
10 m awayRef 199201RY00410
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 58 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat 500)
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 201501RY10153 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 2015.