A214 crash in Bromley on 12 December 2024 at 17:00 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra and a Yamaha GPD motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 17:00 on Thursday 12 December 2024. The 23-year-old male rider of the Yamaha GPD motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Thursday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astra and Yamaha GPD
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40655, longitude -0.05796, 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.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024010548872
- 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
- Crossroads
- 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 15 May 2009.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A214 in Bromley, 15 May 2009
4 m awayRef 200901PY20330
Slight
Hyundai i800 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 March 2015
4 m awayRef 201501PY20174
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 January 2002
4 m awayRef 200201PY00081
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on the A214 in Bromley, 13 February 2005
4 m awayRef 200501PY20110
Serious
Volkswagen 1300 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 29 July 1996
4 m awayRef 199601PY00662
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A214 in Bromley, 16 January 2002
4 m awayRef 200201PY00088
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Yamaha GPD
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 125 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha GPD)
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 2024010548872 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 2024.