Serious B251 crash in Bromley on 18 November 2015 at 12:55 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Vauxhall Meriva were involved in a crash on the B251 in Bromley at 12:55 on Wednesday 18 November 2015. The 87-year-old male driver of the Toyota Aygo was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Nov 2015
- Wednesday, 12:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Vauxhall Meriva
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38852, longitude 0.00232, in the BR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley Town, Bromley, BR2 9DA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201501PY29056
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 251
- 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
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 9 October 1982.
Serious
Car crash on the B251 in Bromley, 9 October 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PR0711
Serious
Car crash on the B251 in Bromley, 1 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198501PR00001
Slight
Car crash on the B251 in Bromley, 20 January 1985
14 m awayRef 198501PR00033
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the B251 in Bromley, 28 May 1995
32 m awayRef 199501PY00556
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B251 in Bromley, 25 February 2013
32 m awayRef 201301PY20112
Slight
Car crash on the B251 in Bromley, 4 March 1989
36 m awayRef 198901PR00155
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- 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
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Aygo)
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 201501PY29056 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.