Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 5 October 2016 at 12:00 involving a Seat Leon
A Seat Leon hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bexley at 12:00 on Wednesday 5 October 2016. A 31-year-old male pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Oct 2016
- Wednesday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Leon
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49292, longitude 0.15228, in the DA17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Belvedere, Bexley, DA17 6GN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010023691
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 30 April 1984.
Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00315
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 21 September 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RY00657
Slight
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 30 June 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010385748
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 9 May 2016
10 m awayRef 201601RY10159
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 4 August 2023
10 m awayRef 2023010458959
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 May 1984
20 m awayRef 198401RY00361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 31, hit by vehicle 1 (Seat Leon)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
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 2016010023691 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.