A214 crash in Bromley on 8 July 2015 at 17:48 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 17:48 on Wednesday 8 July 2015. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was 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
- 8 Jul 2015
- Wednesday, 17:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39211, longitude -0.03432, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kelsey & Eden Park, Bromley, BR3 4AN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PY20491
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1996.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A214 in Bromley, 27 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PY00670
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 10 July 1986
At the same spotRef 198601PR00448
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 27 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PR00404
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A214 in Bromley, 27 May 2012
At the same spotRef 201201PY20296
Slight
Kawasaki ZR crash on the A214 in Bromley, 28 September 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010401809
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A214 in Bromley, 4 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199001PR00217
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 25, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 201501PY20491 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.