A207 crash in Bexley on 10 May 2015 at 21:49 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on the A207 in Bexley at 21:49 on Sunday 10 May 2015. The 24-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 2015
- Sunday, 21:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46553, longitude 0.08833, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Wickham, Bexley, DA16 2ST area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RY10171
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 July 2004.
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A207 in Bexley, 30 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RY10211
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A207 in Bexley, 23 July 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RY10220
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the A207 in Bexley, 11 November 2009
10 m awayRef 200901RY10459
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A207 in Bexley, 20 June 2011
10 m awayRef 201101RY10207
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the A207 in Bexley, 4 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199701RY00672
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the A207 in Bexley, 18 March 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RY00157
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- 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
- 41 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201501RY10171 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.