C road crash in Bexley DA18 on 7 April 2023 at 23:14 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on a C road in Bexley at 23:14 on Friday 7 April 2023. The 35-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Apr 2023
- Friday, 23:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49402, longitude 0.13708, in the DA18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thamesmead East, Bexley, DA18 4HB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010436419
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
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, 47 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 5 November 1985
47 m awayRef 198501RW00535
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 19 June 1989
47 m awayRef 198901RW00286
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 2 December 1988
50 m awayRef 198801RW00526
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on a C road in Bexley, 2 October 2020
62 m awayRef 2020010271310
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Bexley, 28 October 1994
69 m awayRef 199401RA00421
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Bexley, 7 January 2016
72 m awayRef 201601RY10117
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Wall or fence
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
- 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 2023010436419 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 2023.