B251 crash in Bromley on 26 September 2008 at 09:00 involving a Mazda MX-5
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Sep 2008
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37828, longitude 0.0088, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hayes & Coney Hall, Bromley, BR2 7HE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801PY75070
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 251
- 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
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2001.
Slight
Rover Metro crash on the B251 in Bromley, 4 June 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PY00592
Slight
Smart Fortwo crash on the B251 in Bromley, 4 October 2021
1 m awayRef 2021010335363
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B251 in Bromley, 15 March 2019
8 m awayRef 2019010169352
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B251 in Bromley, 26 April 1996
10 m awayRef 199601PY00399
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B251 in Bromley, 29 March 1996
10 m awayRef 199601PY00349
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the B251 in Bromley, 1 September 1993
10 m awayRef 199301PR00475
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,839 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda MX-5)
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 200801PY75070 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.