Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 15 October 2005 at 13:20 involving a Renault Megane
A Renault Megane and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 13:20 on Saturday 15 October 2005. The 85-year-old male driver of the Toyota Yaris was seriously injured and the 37-year-old female driver of the Renault Megane and a 36-year-old male passenger in the Renault Megane were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Oct 2005
- Saturday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34575, longitude 0.1247, in the TN14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelsfield, Bromley, TN14 7HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200501TD00240
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 2006.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 26 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200601PY20760
Serious
Citroen Saxo crash on the A21 in Bromley, 14 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PY01256
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Sevenoaks, 18 November 2001
At the same spotRef 200146WK50308
Slight
Renault Master crash on the A21 in Bromley, 20 August 2014
At the same spotRef 201401PY20654
Slight
Vauxhall Brava crash on the A21 in Bromley, 19 March 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PY00322
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 31 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY00105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 85 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 85, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
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 200501TD00240 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 2005.