A214 crash in Bromley on 2 July 2015 at 09:17 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Smart Forfour were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 09:17 on Thursday 2 July 2015. The male driver of the Smart Forfour and a 45-year-old male passenger in the Smart Forfour were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Jul 2015
- Thursday, 09:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Smart Forfour
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40352, longitude -0.05511, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Clock House, Bromley, SE20 7YD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PY20467
- 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
- 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 18 January 1999.
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 18 January 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PY00078
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PR00684
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A214 in Bromley, 18 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101PY20660
Slight
Piaggio Typhoon crash on the A214 in Bromley, 20 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200001PY00126
Slight
Van crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PR00819
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 20 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201101TB00784
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- 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
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Smart Forfour
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Smart Forfour)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Smart Forfour)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 201501PY20467 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 2015.