Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA7 on 13 December 2018 at 16:24 involving a Ford Transit Connect van
A Ford Transit Connect van and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 16:24 on Thursday 13 December 2018. The 76-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2018
- Thursday, 16:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Connect and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47825, longitude 0.12149, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Heath, Bexley, DA16 1BJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010151946
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 December 1995.
Slight
Audi 80 crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 7 December 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00784
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401RY00329
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 14 October 2000
At the same spotRef 200001RY00613
Slight
Chevrolet Kalos crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 14 July 2016
At the same spotRef 201601RY10272
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 13 July 1995
At the same spotRef 199501RY00456
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Bexley, 21 January 1989
At the same spotRef 198901RY00051
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Connect
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,499 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 76 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 76, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Fiat Punto)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010151946 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.