A208 crash in Bromley on 18 May 1995 at 17:40 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort, a Vauxhall Cavalier and a car were involved in a crash on the A208 in Bromley at 17:40 on Thursday 18 May 1995. The 25-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort and the 28-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1995
- Thursday, 17:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Escort and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40008, longitude 0.08751, in the BR7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501PY00508
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 May 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A208 in Bromley, 7 May 1985
10 m awayRef 198501PN00226
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A208 in Bromley, 9 March 2021
10 m awayRef 2021010295892
Slight
Car crash on the A208 in Bromley, 14 December 1983
20 m awayRef 1983010PM0702
Slight
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the A208 in Bromley, 17 September 1999
20 m awayRef 199901PY01261
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A208 in Bromley, 16 September 1995
20 m awayRef 199501PY00888
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A208 in Bromley, 21 July 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010PM0386
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199501PY00508 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bromley road accident statistics for 1995.