C road crash in Bromley BR7 on 24 September 2016 at 19:15 involving a Volvo XC90
A Volvo XC90 and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on a C road in Bromley at 19:15 on Saturday 24 September 2016. The 39-year-old female driver of the Volvo XC90 and the 29-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Sep 2016
- Saturday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volvo XC90 and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41846, longitude 0.04652, in the BR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chislehurst, Bromley, BR7 5ES area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016010019287
- 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
- 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
- Raining, 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
- 3%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 97%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2011.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 30 November 2011
At the same spotRef 201101PY20622
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Bromley, 27 November 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PY01176
Slight
Vespa (Douglas) crash on a C road in Bromley, 26 January 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PY00132
Slight
BMW M3 crash on a C road in Bromley, 6 December 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010613883
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 26 January 1984
22 m awayRef 198401PN00051
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 20 January 1988
22 m awayRef 198801PN00047
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC90
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,401 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volvo XC90)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
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 2016010019287 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 2016.