Serious C road crash in Bromley BR1 on 24 December 2012 at 14:50 involving an Alexander Dennis bus
An Alexander Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bromley at 14:50 on Monday 24 December 2012. A 42-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Dec 2012
- Monday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Alexander Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40245, longitude 0.01546, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley Town, Bromley, BR1 1DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TB01276
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 March 1998.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bromley, 14 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY00280
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 29 July 1989
At the same spotRef 198901PR00509
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 25 November 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PR0859
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on a C road in Bromley, 15 December 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010078196
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Bromley, 7 December 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PR00880
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Bromley, 25 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PR00719
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Alexander Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,900 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 42, hit by vehicle 1 (Alexander Dennis)
- 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 201201TB01276 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.