A224 crash in Bromley on 7 September 2025 at 09:05 involving a BMW S 1000 motorcycle
A BMW S 1000 motorcycle and a Nissan X-Trail were involved in a crash on the A224 in Bromley at 09:05 on Sunday 7 September 2025. The 35-year-old male rider of the BMW S 1000 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 2025
- Sunday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW S 1000 and Nissan X-Trail
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38704, longitude 0.10882, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mary Cray, Bromley, BR5 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025010596071
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 224
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 24 September 1987.
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 24 September 1987
5 m awayRef 198701PN00477
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A224 in Bromley, 22 March 1992
5 m awayRef 199201PN00112
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A224 in Bromley, 17 June 2004
14 m awayRef 200401PY20189
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 24 October 1985
18 m awayRef 198501PN00582
Slight
Renault Trafic crash on the A224 in Bromley, 13 December 2022
21 m awayRef 2022010416245
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A224 in Bromley, 18 November 2013
27 m awayRef 201301PY20652
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW S 1000
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- 20 to 100 km
Vehicle 2: Nissan X-Trail
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,618 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (BMW S 1000)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least 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 2025010596071 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.