A222 crash in Bexley on 31 March 2018 at 23:40 involving a Nissan Note
A Nissan Note and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bexley at 23:40 on Saturday 31 March 2018. The 69-year-old male driver of the Nissan Note and a 70-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Note were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Mar 2018
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Note and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44133, longitude 0.1487, in the DA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary's & St James, Bexley, DA5 1LY area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010099413
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2018.
Slight
Wrightbus Gemini crash on the A222 in Bexley, 11 November 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010144924
Slight
Car crash on the A222 in Bexley, 28 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401RY10110
Slight
MG ZS crash on the A222 in Bexley, 12 April 2024
15 m awayRef 2024010504541
Slight
Peugeot 508 crash on the A222 in Bexley, 4 October 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010601643
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 10 April 1993
20 m awayRef 199301RY00223
Slight
Car crash on the A222 in Bexley, 6 January 1985
20 m awayRef 198501RY00012
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Note
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 69, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 70, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Note)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018010099413 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 2018.