A21 crash in Bromley on 23 December 1980 at 15:40 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A21 in Bromley at 15:40 on Tuesday 23 December 1980. A 76-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.

Severity: Slight
Date: 23 Dec 1980; Tuesday, 15:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198001LNPID91
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 21
Road type: One way street or slip road
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities: Pedestrian phase at traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Male, aged 76, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
Crossing in zig-zag approach lines

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 198001LNPID91 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 1980.