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A209 crash in Bexley on 24 September 2019 at 08:15 involving a Volkswagen Passat taxi

A Volkswagen Passat taxi hit a pedestrian on the A209 in Bexley at 08:15 on Tuesday 24 September 2019. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
24 Sep 2019
Tuesday, 08:15
Vehicles
1
Volkswagen Passat
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46553, longitude 0.11006, in the DA16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Falconwood & Welling, Bexley, DA16 3QH area accident hotspot.

Map of where the crash happened in Bexley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
2019010207398
Council area
Bexley
Police force
Metropolitan Police
Police attended the scene
Yes

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
209
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
20 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
Human crossing control by other authorised person

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1995.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat

    Taxi or private hire car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    Position at junction
    Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Left-hand drive
    No
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    54 years
    Engine capacity
    1,968 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Diesel
    Vehicle age
    5 years
    Driver home area deprivation
    30 to 40% most deprived

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)

    Pedestrian location
    Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
    Home area deprivation
    40 to 50% 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 2019010207398 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 2019.