Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 17 December 2002 at 19:15 involving a Fiat Brava
A Fiat Brava and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 19:15 on Tuesday 17 December 2002. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Dec 2002
- Tuesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat Brava and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41155, longitude 0.00911, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Plaistow, Bromley, BR1 4HF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201PY01280
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 December 2015.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Bromley, 28 December 2015
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Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 14 February 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PR0098
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Bromley, 13 November 2018
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 20 February 2010
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Fiat 500 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 3 March 2023
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Slight
Austin Montego crash on the A21 in Bromley, 11 November 1991
14 m awayRef 199101PR00586
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Brava
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 200201PY01280 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 2002.