Serious A214 crash in Bromley on 22 December 2020 at 22:10 involving a Honda GLR 125 motorcycle
A Honda GLR 125 motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A214 in Bromley at 22:10 on Tuesday 22 December 2020. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and the 34-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Dec 2020
- Tuesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda GLR 125
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4076, longitude -0.05888, in the SE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Penge & Cator, Bromley, SE20 8JJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020010286147
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 214
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 October 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 5 October 1983
18 m awayRef 1983010PR0669
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 9 October 1998
23 m awayRef 199801PY01017
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A214 in Bromley, 7 December 2022
24 m awayRef 2022010414877
Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A214 in Bromley, 10 June 2002
31 m awayRef 200201PY00573
Slight
Toyota MR2 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 27 June 2009
36 m awayRef 200901PY20420
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 13 March 2014
40 m awayRef 201401PY20133
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda GLR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 34, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Honda GLR 125)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2020010286147 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 2020.