A2 crash in Bexley on 30 July 2025 at 14:02 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira and a Ford Transit Courier van were involved in a crash on the A2 in Bexley at 14:02 on Wednesday 30 July 2025. The 34-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Courier van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Jul 2025
- Wednesday, 14:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Zafira and Ford Transit Courier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44876, longitude 0.12548, in the DA5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bexley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blendon & Penhill, Bexley, DA5 1JW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010589548
- Council area
- Bexley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 2
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 June 2024.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A2 in Bexley, 19 June 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010517149
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A2 in Bexley, 11 May 2006
10 m awayRef 200601RY10219
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A2 in Bexley, 9 March 2018
11 m awayRef 2018010095139
Slight
Austin Maestro crash on the A2 in Bexley, 3 March 1992
11 m awayRef 199201RY00135
Slight
Honda XR125L crash on the A2 in Bexley, 23 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200501RG40480
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A2 in Bexley, 16 November 2015
16 m awayRef 201501RY10436
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Courier
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 10 to 20 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 34, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Courier)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 10 to 20 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 2025010589548 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 2025.