A21 crash in Bromley on 31 December 1981 at 11:45 involving a car

A car and a lorry were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 11:45 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 56-year-old male passenger in the car was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.

Severity: Slight
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 11:45
Vehicles: 2; Car and lorry
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVLJD92
Council area: Bromley
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 21
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
Junction control: Auto traffic signal

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Waiting to go ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
59 years
Vehicle 2: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Slight
Male, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Front seat passenger

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 198101LVLJD92 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.