Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR6 on 26 September 2001 at 21:35 involving a Bedford Midi van
A Bedford Midi van hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bromley at 21:35 on Wednesday 26 September 2001. A 15-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2001
- Wednesday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bedford Midi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35947, longitude 0.0719, in the BR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Farnborough & Crofton, Bromley, BR6 7EQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101PY00925
- Council area
- Bromley
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2158
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 16 July 1999.
Slight
Dennis crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 16 July 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PY01075
Slight
Dennis crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 21 April 1993
22 m awayRef 199301PN00135
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 10 June 2002
36 m awayRef 200201PY00571
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 16 May 1985
41 m awayRef 198501PN00247
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 1 October 1993
41 m awayRef 199301PN00395
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B2158 in Bromley, 12 November 1983
50 m awayRef 1983010PM0631
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bedford Midi
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Bedford Midi)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200101PY00925 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.