Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR7 on 12 February 2017 at 14:43 involving a Subaru Legacy
A Subaru Legacy and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromley at 14:43 on Sunday 12 February 2017. A 19-year-old female passenger in the Subaru Legacy and the 20-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Feb 2017
- Sunday, 14:43
- Vehicles
- 2
- Subaru Legacy and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42851, longitude 0.07142, 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 6HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010018136
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 110 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 15 June 2016.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 15 June 2016
110 m awayRef 201601PY20414
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 6 May 1997
130 m awayRef 199701PY00471
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 18 September 2008
140 m awayRef 200801PY74885
Slight
Peugeot 104 crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 23 July 1994
194 m awayRef 199401PN00308
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 19 May 2002
238 m awayRef 200201RG00415
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Greenwich, 23 July 1987
253 m awayRef 198701RD00509
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Subaru Legacy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,994 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Subaru Legacy)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 2017010018136 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.