Serious unclassified road crash in Bromley BR6 on 4 July 2008 at 18:42 involving a Rover 600 Series
Four vehicles, including a Rover 600 Series and a Honda Accord, were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromley at 18:42 on Friday 4 July 2008. The 45-year-old female driver of the Rover 600 Series, the 55-year-old male driver of the Toyota Celica and the 62-year-old female driver of the Jaguar X Type were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Jul 2008
- Friday, 18:42
- Vehicles
- 4
- Rover 600 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36164, longitude 0.10159, in the BR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelsfield, Bromley, BR6 9HA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801PY20337
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 4 January 2008.
Fatal
Mazda 323 crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 4 January 2008
10 m awayRef 200801PY69103
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 8 October 1984
42 m awayRef 198401PN00558
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 12 January 2011
50 m awayRef 201101PY20028
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 27 December 1983
64 m awayRef 1983010PN0727
Slight
BMW 2 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 18 December 2020
88 m awayRef 2020010285432
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 12 June 1989
127 m awayRef 198901PN00302
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Rover 600 Series
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Toyota Celica
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,794 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 4: Jaguar X Type
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 600 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Toyota Celica)
Casualty 3: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Jaguar X Type)
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 200801PY20337 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 2008.