A21 crash in Bromley on 7 December 2021 at 16:24 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
Four vehicles, including a Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Touareg, were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 16:24 on Tuesday 7 December 2021. A 4-year-old female passenger in the Peugeot 2008 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 2021
- Tuesday, 16:24
- Vehicles
- 4
- Vauxhall Corsa and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34593, longitude 0.12468, in the TN14 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chelsfield, Bromley, TN14 7HR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021010348657
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 December 2000.
Slight
Volvo 760 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 22 December 2000
4 m awayRef 200001PY09018
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 8 June 2001
4 m awayRef 200101PY00602
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on the A21 in Bromley, 16 March 2010
4 m awayRef 201001PY20154
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A21 in Bromley, 12 August 2000
4 m awayRef 200001PY00767
Slight
Rover 600 Series crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 24 April 1995
9 m awayRef 199501PY00394
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 2 October 1996
9 m awayRef 199601PY00876
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,229 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Touareg
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,967 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 4: Peugeot 2008
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 38 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 4, car occupant, in vehicle 4 (Peugeot 2008)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2021010348657 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 2021.