B265 crash in Bromley on 21 September 2004 at 12:15 involving a Volkswagen Caddy van
A Volkswagen Caddy van and a Honda VFR800F motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B265 in Bromley at 12:15 on Tuesday 21 September 2004. The 33-year-old male rider of the Honda VFR800F motorcycle was 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
- 21 Sep 2004
- Tuesday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Caddy and Honda VFR800F
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35503, longitude 0.03263, in the BR2 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hayes & Coney Hall, Bromley, BR2 6AE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401PY20461
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 265
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 18 April 1993.
Slight
Suzuki crash on the B265 in Bromley, 18 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199301PR00223
Serious
Van crash on the B265 in Bromley, 30 October 1988
14 m awayRef 198801PR00667
Slight
Yamaha YZF R1 crash on the B265 in Bromley, 5 May 2014
32 m awayRef 201401PY20288
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B265 in Bromley, 17 September 2000
41 m awayRef 200001PY00903
Slight
Audi A1 crash on the B265 in Bromley, 6 March 2019
47 m awayRef 2019010167420
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B265 in Bromley, 19 March 2004
50 m awayRef 200401PY00173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Honda VFR800F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 33, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 2 (Honda VFR800F)
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 200401PY20461 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.