A224 crash in Bromley on 16 June 2004 at 14:00 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra and a Mercedes bus were involved in a crash on the A224 in Bromley at 14:00 on Wednesday 16 June 2004. The 23-year-old female driver of the Vauxhall Vectra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jun 2004
- Wednesday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Vectra and Mercedes
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39356, longitude 0.11153, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary Cray, Bromley, BR5 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401PY20211
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 5 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PN00157
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BMW 3 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 22 September 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010060477
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A224 in Bromley, 27 May 2022
8 m awayRef 2022010379017
Slight
Honda crash on the A224 in Bromley, 17 September 2004
10 m awayRef 200401PY20515
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A224 in Bromley, 18 April 2024
11 m awayRef 2024010505681
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 24 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198401PN00400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,250 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200401PY20211 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 2004.