A21 crash in Bromley on 3 August 2017 at 14:08 involving a Fiat 500
A Fiat 500 and a Piaggio Liberty motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 14:08 on Thursday 3 August 2017. The 26-year-old male rider of the Piaggio Liberty motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2017
- Thursday, 14:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Fiat 500 and Piaggio Liberty
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4097, longitude 0.01032, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shortlands & Park Langley, Bromley, BR2 0DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017010052001
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Dark, street lights unlit
- 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 20 October 2001.
Slight
Peugeot Speedfight crash on the A21 in Bromley, 20 October 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PY01014
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A21 in Bromley, 2 October 2021
6 m awayRef 2021010335076
Slight
Taxi crash on the A21 in Bromley, 16 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010065782
Slight
Van crash on the A21 in Bromley, 29 September 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010PR0652
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A21 in Bromley, 28 August 1995
10 m awayRef 199501PY00835
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Bromley, 19 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501PY20800
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Fiat 500
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 875 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Liberty
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Liberty)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017010052001 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.