Unclassified road crash in Bexley DA16 on 4 November 2022 at 18:14 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bexley at 18:14 on Friday 4 November 2022. The 43-year-old male driver of the Ford Mondeo and the 32-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Golf were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2022
- Friday, 18:14
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45646, longitude 0.09604, 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 2NP area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022010408475
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 22 December 1989
7 m awayRef 198901RY00928
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 11 March 1997
16 m awayRef 199701RY00155
Slight
Mazda crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 2 July 2004
50 m awayRef 200401RY10170
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 15 August 1982
66 m awayRef 1982010RY0699
Serious
Bus crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 April 1992
72 m awayRef 199201RY00223
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 September 1985
72 m awayRef 198501RY00680
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Mondeo)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2022010408475 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.