Serious C road crash in Bromley on 23 December 1981 at 10:40 involving a car

A vehicle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bromley at 10:40 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 55-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity: Serious
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 10:40
Vehicles: 2; Other vehicle and car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNKIP90
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: C
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Using private drive or entrance
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Other vehicle
Manoeuvre
Parked
Vehicle 2: Car
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
65 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 55, hit by vehicle 1 (Other vehicle)
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing)

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 198101LNKIP90 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 1981.