A222 crash in Bromley on 3 August 2023 at 14:00 involving a Ford Kuga
A Ford Kuga and a Vauxhall Grandland were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bromley at 14:00 on Thursday 3 August 2023. The 44-year-old female driver of the Ford Kuga and the 57-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Grandland were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2023
- Thursday, 14:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Kuga and Vauxhall Grandland
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41539, longitude 0.08306, in the BR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chislehurst, Bromley, BR7 6HF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023010458677
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 December 1991.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A222 in Bromley, 3 December 1991
4 m awayRef 199101PN00556
Slight
Car crash on the A222 in Bromley, 20 September 1987
13 m awayRef 198701PN00470
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A222 in Bromley, 12 November 1991
13 m awayRef 199101PN00520
Fatal
Aprilia crash on the A222 in Bromley, 2 July 2003
13 m awayRef 200301TD00212
Serious
Van crash on the A222 in Bromley, 20 October 2008
18 m awayRef 200801PY20578
Slight
Car crash on the A222 in Bromley, 21 July 1983
18 m awayRef 1983010PM0385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Kuga
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,521 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Grandland
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Kuga)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Grandland)
- 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 2023010458677 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 2023.