Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR4 on 2 March 2018 at 15:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Volkswagen Tiguan were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromley at 15:30 on Friday 2 March 2018. A 6-year-old male passenger in the Vauxhall Astra was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in snow on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Mar 2018
- Friday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Volkswagen Tiguan
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38257, longitude -0.00165, in the BR4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the West Wickham, Bromley, BR4 0EA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010093696
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
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, 103 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 18 December 2001
103 m awayRef 200101PY09027
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 31 December 2003
112 m awayRef 200301PY00919
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on a C road in Bromley, 3 April 1993
117 m awayRef 199301PR00189
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 29 July 1989
121 m awayRef 198901PR00512
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Bromley, 3 September 1992
136 m awayRef 199201PR00504
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Bromley, 19 February 2025
149 m awayRef 2025010560006
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018010093696 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 2018.