C road crash in Bexley DA6 on 23 April 2017 at 14:01 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A Vauxhall Astra van and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 14:01 on Sunday 23 April 2017. The 21-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra van was 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
- 23 Apr 2017
- Sunday, 14:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45348, longitude 0.14308, in the DA6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bexleyheath, Bexley, DA6 7BW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010033420
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 November 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 18 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199201RY00743
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 20 May 2009
At the same spotRef 200901RY10185
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on a C road in Bexley, 9 October 2014
At the same spotRef 201401RY10409
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 3 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00701
Slight
Mini One crash on a C road in Bexley, 29 April 2016
At the same spotRef 201601RY10145
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 30 March 2000
At the same spotRef 200001RY00181
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017010033420 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 2017.