Serious unclassified road crash in Bexley DA16 on 28 October 2024 at 13:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on an unclassified road in Bexley at 13:30 on Monday 28 October 2024. The 18-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Monday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46579, longitude 0.10751, 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.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010540344
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 19 September 1988
17 m awayRef 198801RY00641
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 16 June 1990
25 m awayRef 199001RY00447
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 3 October 1985
25 m awayRef 198501RY00748
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 1 October 1998
39 m awayRef 199801RY00576
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 29 December 1986
40 m awayRef 198601RY01032
Serious
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Bexley, 9 April 1994
53 m awayRef 199401RY00245
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 18, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024010540344 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 2024.