A224 crash in Bromley on 27 December 2008 at 11:45 involving a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle
A car and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A224 in Bromley at 11:45 on Saturday 27 December 2008. The 22-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle 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
- 27 Dec 2008
- Saturday, 11:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39732, longitude 0.11285, 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
- 200801PY20729
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 2000.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A224 in Bromley, 4 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PY00808
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A224 in Bromley, 22 December 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PY01608
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A224 in Bromley, 12 February 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PY00158
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A224 in Bromley, 14 February 2013
At the same spotRef 201301PY20093
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A224 in Bromley, 4 April 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010030183
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A224 in Bromley, 6 April 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010300257
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
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 200801PY20729 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.