C road crash in Bexley DA7 on 16 October 2022 at 14:47 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A Ford Transit Custom van and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on a C road in Bexley at 14:47 on Sunday 16 October 2022. The 37-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van and the 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Astra were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 2022
- Sunday, 14:47
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Transit Custom and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46345, longitude 0.16664, in the DA7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Barnehurst, Bexley, DA7 6NN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010404879
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single 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
- 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, 34 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 March 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 March 1996
34 m awayRef 199601RY00171
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 14 August 1999
36 m awayRef 199901RY00482
Slight
Honda crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 May 1995
36 m awayRef 199501RY00301
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Bexley, 8 June 1994
36 m awayRef 199401RY00364
Slight
Renault Espace crash on a C road in Bexley, 11 May 1999
36 m awayRef 199901RY00302
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on a C road in Bexley, 5 September 1998
36 m awayRef 199801RY00521
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 37, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit Custom)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2022010404879 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 2022.