A208 crash in Bromley on 3 August 2025 at 19:40 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 and a Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A208 in Bromley at 19:40 on Sunday 3 August 2025. The 37-year-old female rider of the Kawasaki ER650 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Aug 2025
- Sunday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mazda MX-5 and Kawasaki ER650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41786, longitude 0.06807, 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 5LX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010590224
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 July 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A208 in Bromley, 22 July 1987
12 m awayRef 198701PN00358
Slight
Car crash on the A208 in Bromley, 26 September 1985
12 m awayRef 198501PN00503
Serious
Jaguar F Type crash on the A208 in Bromley, 21 August 2019
14 m awayRef 2019010200840
Slight
Lexus LS400 crash on the A208 in Bromley, 3 March 1994
15 m awayRef 199401PN00083
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A208 in Bromley, 18 June 2006
15 m awayRef 200601PY20392
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A208 in Bromley, 17 September 1993
15 m awayRef 199301PN00350
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki ER650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 649 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 37, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki ER650)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- 20 to 100 km
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 2025010590224 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 2025.