A224 crash in Bromley on 9 January 2019 at 10:52 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A224 in Bromley at 10:52 on Wednesday 9 January 2019. The 44-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jan 2019
- Wednesday, 10:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35628, longitude 0.12543, in the BR6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelsfield, Bromley, BR6 6EP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010156474
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- 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 16 July 2021.
Slight
Suzuki Swift crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 16 July 2021
At the same spotRef 2021010319350
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A224 in Bromley, 22 November 1985
6 m awayRef 198501PN00641
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 25 September 1989
6 m awayRef 198901PN00504
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 6 September 1985
6 m awayRef 198501PN00464
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A224 in Bromley, 8 November 1995
6 m awayRef 199501PY01069
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 25 December 1984
6 m awayRef 198401PN00734
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- 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 2019010156474 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 2019.