Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR2 on 4 April 2017 at 16:48 involving a Renault Trucks lorry
A Renault Trucks lorry hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bromley at 16:48 on Tuesday 4 April 2017. A 13-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 4 Apr 2017
- Tuesday, 16:48
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Trucks
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39745, longitude 0.02186, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bromley Common & Holwood, Bromley, BR2 9NE area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010030352
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 21
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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Bromley, 5 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY00214
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Bromley, 30 January 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY00103
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 15 May 2014
At the same spotRef 201401PY20297
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 19 November 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY01214
Slight
Gilera Dna 125 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 16 October 2007
At the same spotRef 200701PY20263
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Bromley, 14 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY00376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trucks
Goods vehicle 3.5 to 7.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,764 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Renault Trucks)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- 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 2017010030352 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.