Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 16 April 2001 at 00:20 involving a Jeep Cherokee
A Jeep Cherokee crashed on the A21 in Bromley at 00:20 on Monday 16 April 2001. A 32-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and a female passenger and the 33-year-old male driver were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Apr 2001
- Monday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Jeep Cherokee
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38843, longitude 0.03598, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley Common & Holwood, Bromley, BR2 8JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PY00738
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 2015.
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BMW 3 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 17 December 2015
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A21 in Bromley, 14 October 2013
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Volvo 340 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 17 December 1990
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Slight
Hyundai Accent crash on the A21 in Bromley, 13 December 2013
10 m awayRef 201301PY20710
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Jeep Cherokee
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,960 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Cherokee)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Cherokee)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Jeep Cherokee)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200101PY00738 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 2001.