Serious C road crash in Bromley BR5 on 6 January 2017 at 15:50 involving a Honda CB500XA motorcycle
A Honda CB500XA motorcycle crashed on a C road in Bromley at 15:50 on Friday 6 January 2017. The 61-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Jan 2017
- Friday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda CB500XA
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39402, longitude 0.11457, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary Cray, Bromley, BR5 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010010183
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 February 1982.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 16 February 1982
14 m awayRef 1982010PM0093
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bromley, 7 June 1985
14 m awayRef 198501PN00282
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bromley, 6 October 1984
14 m awayRef 198401PN00554
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 23 December 2022
16 m awayRef 2022010417975
Serious
Peugeot 405 crash on a C road in Bromley, 22 September 1997
20 m awayRef 199701PY00931
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 10 May 2012
20 m awayRef 201201PY20268
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda CB500XA
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Cycleway or shared use footway (not part of main carriageway)
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 471 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda CB500XA)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least 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 2017010010183 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 2017.