A210 crash in Bexley on 8 May 2018 at 00:45 involving a Citroen C3
A Citroen C3 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A210 in Bexley at 00:45 on Tuesday 8 May 2018. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Citroen C3 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 May 2018
- Tuesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C3 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45137, longitude 0.09592, in the DA15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 2NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010106414
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 210
- Road type
- Dual 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 April 2001.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A210 in Bexley, 8 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200101RY00224
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A210 in Bexley, 30 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200501RY10524
Serious
Car crash on the A210 in Bexley, 3 January 1986
10 m awayRef 198601RY00009
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A210 in Bexley, 25 March 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010RY0210
Serious
Car crash on the A210 in Bexley, 8 June 2013
20 m awayRef 201301RY10170
Serious
Car crash on the A210 in Bexley, 9 January 1987
22 m awayRef 198701RY00022
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
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
- Engine capacity
- 2,979 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C3)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018010106414 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.