Serious A208 crash in Bromley on 23 December 1981 at 16:35 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the A208 in Bromley at 16:35 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. A 75-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 23 Dec 1981; Wednesday, 16:35
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LNQHD94
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 208
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Other
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
21 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 75, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
Pedestrian movement
In carriageway, stationary, not crossing (standing or playing), masked by parked or stationary vehicle

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 198101LNQHD94 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.