Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA17 on 14 November 2017 at 18:50 involving a BMW 4 Series
A BMW 4 Series and a Ford Transit Custom van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 18:50 on Tuesday 14 November 2017. The 22-year-old male driver of the BMW 4 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2017
- Tuesday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 4 Series and Ford Transit Custom
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48946, longitude 0.14261, 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 5QL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010070084
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
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, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 June 1995.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 3 June 1995
28 m awayRef 199501RY00359
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 14 June 1996
36 m awayRef 199601RY00395
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 10 December 1987
36 m awayRef 198701RY00942
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 11 June 2018
41 m awayRef 2018010113652
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 14 March 1992
41 m awayRef 199201RY00161
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 26 March 1982
41 m awayRef 1982010RY0224
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 4 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 4 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017010070084 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.