A21 crash in Bromley on 31 May 2006 at 20:00 involving a Suzuki Swift
A Suzuki Swift and a car were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 20:00 on Wednesday 31 May 2006. The 40-year-old male driver of the Suzuki Swift was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 31 May 2006
- Wednesday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Swift and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39517, longitude 0.02593, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley Common & Holwood, Bromley, BR2 9NE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200601PY20345
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 265
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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 September 2000.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 2 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PY00823
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A21 in Bromley, 12 May 2004
At the same spotRef 200401PY20100
Slight
Citroen AX crash on the A21 in Bromley, 31 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY01413
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Bromley, 15 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PY00896
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Bromley, 5 November 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PY01072
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 16 February 2024
9 m awayRef 2024010494794
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Swift
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,298 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Swift)
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 200601PY20345 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 2006.