A232 crash in Bromley on 27 December 1979 at 07:05 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A232 in Bromley at 07:05 on Thursday 27 December 1979. The 60-year-old male rider was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 27 Dec 1979; Thursday, 07:05
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 197901LRHBD99
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 232
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards: Other object in carriageway

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
59 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Rider
Slight
Male, aged 60, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 197901LRHBD99 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 1979.