A206 crash in Bexley on 14 December 2017 at 13:25 involving a Volvo lorry
A Volvo lorry and a Peugeot 107 were involved in a crash on the A206 in Bexley at 13:25 on Thursday 14 December 2017. The 24-year-old female driver of the Peugeot 107 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 13:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo and Peugeot 107
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47816, longitude 0.17981, in the DA8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Erith, Bexley, DA8 3DQ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010077903
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 206
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 March 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the A206 in Bexley, 18 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801RY00198
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A206 in Bexley, 15 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201RY00570
Serious
Iveco-Ford crash on the A206 in Bexley, 9 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200401RY10418
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A206 in Bexley, 19 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199601RY00535
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A206 in Bexley, 16 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200701RY10036
Slight
Iveco crash on the A206 in Bexley, 2 May 2003
10 m awayRef 200301RY00252
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 12,777 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 107
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Peugeot 107)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2017010077903 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.