A208 crash in Bromley on 1 November 2018 at 06:45 involving a BMW 1 Series
A BMW 1 Series and a Nissan Almera were involved in a crash on the A208 in Bromley at 06:45 on Thursday 1 November 2018. The 72-year-old female driver of the Nissan Almera and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Almera were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Nov 2018
- Thursday, 06:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 1 Series and Nissan Almera
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41604, longitude 0.06956, 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 5LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010142662
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 263
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 21 December 1994.
Slight
Bus crash on the A208 in Bromley, 21 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PN00538
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B263 in Bromley, 25 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501PY01153
Slight
Dennis crash on the A208 in Bromley, 14 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY01303
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B263 in Bromley, 22 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PN00383
Slight
Car crash on the A208 in Bromley, 29 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PN00322
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the B263 in Bromley, 8 January 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY00027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 1 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Nissan Almera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 72 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 72, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan Almera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2018010142662 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.