A2 crash in Bexley on 22 August 2018 at 16:55 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Land Rover Discovery were involved in a crash on the A2 in Bexley at 16:55 on Wednesday 22 August 2018. A 6-year-old male passenger in the BMW 5 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Aug 2018
- Wednesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Land Rover Discovery
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44762, longitude 0.1536, in the DA5 postcode district. 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
- 2018010128490
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- 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 21 June 1999.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Bexley, 21 June 1999
At the same spotRef 199901RY00388
Slight
Car crash on the A2 in Bexley, 6 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RY00007
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 June 1986
At the same spotRef 198601RY00452
Slight
Kawasaki ZX636 crash on the A2 in Bexley, 17 June 2010
10 m awayRef 201001RY10264
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A2 in Bexley, 19 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198701RY00959
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A2 in Bexley, 2 November 2000
10 m awayRef 200001RY00699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Discovery
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,720 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 5 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- 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 2018010128490 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.