A207 crash in Bexley on 17 September 2016 at 18:24 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra hit two pedestrians on the A207 in Bexley at 18:24 on Saturday 17 September 2016. An 8-year-old male pedestrian and a 10-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 17 Sep 2016
- Saturday, 18:24
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45068, longitude 0.17965, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Crayford, Bexley, DA1 4LD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010018223
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 207
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
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
- 20%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 80%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A207 in Bexley, 23 March 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RY00200
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the A207 in Bexley, 26 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201101RY10034
Slight
Leyland crash on the A207 in Bexley, 6 September 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00520
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A207 in Bexley, 24 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199301RY00227
Slight
Volkswagen Urban crash on the A207 in Bexley, 4 December 2015
At the same spotRef 201501RY10483
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A207 in Bexley, 3 November 1997
At the same spotRef 199701RY00677
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- 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
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 10, hit by vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 2016010018223 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 2016.