Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA7 on 10 December 2015 at 18:30 involving a van
A van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bexley at 18:30 on Thursday 10 December 2015. A 69-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47357, longitude 0.14097, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA7 5HP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501RY19051
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 July 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 16 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501RY00521
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 13 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199001RY00347
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 March 1985
22 m awayRef 198501RY00170
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 27 February 1988
30 m awayRef 198801RY00156
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 3 April 1996
32 m awayRef 199601RY00238
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 24 July 2025
38 m awayRef 2025010588605
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 69, hit by vehicle 1 (Van)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 201501RY19051 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.