Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR3 on 30 December 2018 at 22:55 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva, a Vauxhall Zafira and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromley at 22:55 on Sunday 30 December 2018. The 36-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Meriva and the 62-year-old female driver of the Mazda 3 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 2018
- Sunday, 22:55
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Meriva and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41679, longitude -0.04201, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penge & Cator, Bromley, BR3 1LU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018010155161
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 September 2000.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 19 September 2000
10 m awayRef 200001PY00909
Slight
Audi A3 crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 8 December 2020
10 m awayRef 2020010283476
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 7 November 1995
14 m awayRef 199501PY01096
Serious
Fiat Brava crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 1 October 2004
20 m awayRef 200401PY20539
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 6 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199401PR00742
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 28 December 2024
23 m awayRef 2024010551566
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 3: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Meriva)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Mazda 3)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018010155161 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.