A214 crash in Bromley on 20 December 2011 at 17:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A214 in Bromley at 17:10 on Tuesday 20 December 2011. The 48-year-old male rider and an 11-year-old male pedestrian were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 2011
- Tuesday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41184, longitude -0.06681, in the SE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penge & Cator, Bromley, SE20 8JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201101PY20665
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 214
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 30%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 70%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 June 2009.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 5 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PY20384
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 18 September 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PY00901
Slight
Volvo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 3 December 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010149678
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 5 January 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010353039
Slight
Honda SH50K crash on the A214 in Bromley, 28 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199301PR00092
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the A214 in Bromley, 3 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PR00139
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 644 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 48, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- 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 201101PY20665 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 2011.