A2016 crash in Bexley on 30 March 2016 at 18:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a BMW 5 Series were involved in a crash on the A2016 in Bexley at 18:00 on Wednesday 30 March 2016. A 39-year-old female passenger in the Vauxhall Astra and a 6-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra were 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
- 30 Mar 2016
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and BMW 5 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49004, longitude 0.16223, 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
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201601RY10141
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2016
- 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
- 2%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 98%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 2025.
Slight
Lorry crash on the A2016 in Bexley, 1 August 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010589916
Slight
Car crash on the B213 in Bexley, 8 December 1983, ref 1983010RY0957
10 m awayRef 1983010RY0957
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A2016 in Bexley, 21 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200401RY10338
Slight
Car crash on the B213 in Bexley, 10 February 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010RY0114
Slight
Car crash on the B213 in Bexley, 8 December 1983, ref 1983010RY0952
10 m awayRef 1983010RY0952
Serious
Yamaha MT125 crash on the A2016 in Bexley, 15 May 2020
12 m awayRef 2020010247827
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201601RY10141 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.