A20 crash in Bromley on 3 December 2019 at 20:39 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A20 in Bromley at 20:39 on Tuesday 3 December 2019. An 18-year-old female passenger, a 20-year-old female passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet slip road with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Dec 2019
- Tuesday, 20:39
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40972, longitude 0.14375, in the DA14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Paul's Cray, Bromley, DA14 5BG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010222530
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 20
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 January 2015.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A20 in Bromley, 31 January 2015
10 m awayRef 201501PY20079
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A20 in Bromley, 29 November 2025
31 m awayRef 2025010612402
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B2173 in Bexley, 5 December 1992
37 m awayRef 199201RY00789
Slight
Car crash on the A20 in Bexley, 9 December 1989
39 m awayRef 198901RY00899
Fatal
Car crash on the A20 in Bromley, 5 August 2002
40 m awayRef 200201PY00754
Slight
Honda C90 crash on the A20 in Bromley, 7 July 2001
46 m awayRef 200101PY00687
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Lay-by or hard shoulder
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2019010222530 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.