A234 crash in Bromley on 29 December 1981 at 11:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A234 in Bromley at 11:40 on Tuesday 29 December 1981. A female pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.

Severity: Slight
Date: 29 Dec 1981; Tuesday, 11:40
Vehicles: 1; Motorcycle
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LTLID99
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 234
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Raining, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (1)

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

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Slight
Female, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LTLID99 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.