Serious unclassified road crash in Bromley BR5 on 18 June 2009 at 20:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bromley at 20:45 on Thursday 18 June 2009. A 17-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jun 2009
- Thursday, 20:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39357, longitude 0.12102, in the BR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary Cray, Bromley, BR5 3TF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901PY20403
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 July 1992.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 14 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199201PN00295
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 30 September 2008
32 m awayRef 200801PY20508
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 29 August 1986
36 m awayRef 198601PN00465
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 10 June 1983
45 m awayRef 1983010PM0297
Slight
Land Rover crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 23 May 1990
45 m awayRef 199001PN00270
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 20 November 1984
45 m awayRef 198401PN00657
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 17, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200901PY20403 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 2009.