A21 crash in Bromley on 7 September 2012 at 14:10 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 14:10 on Friday 7 September 2012. The 46-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle and the 47-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf were 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
- 7 Sep 2012
- Friday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35036, longitude 0.08843, in the BR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Darwin, Bromley, BR6 7HD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201PY20482
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- C
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
- 18%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 82%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2014.
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 3 April 2014
At the same spotRef 201401PY20221
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Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 17 May 2016
At the same spotRef 201601PY20299
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A21 in Bromley, 7 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801PY20530
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A21 in Bromley, 23 July 1991
At the same spotRef 199101PN00314
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A21 in Bromley, 5 August 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010260506
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A21 in Bromley, 23 December 1996
10 m awayRef 199601PY01288
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 46, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
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 201201PY20482 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 2012.