Serious A223 crash in Bromley on 29 December 1982 at 00:08 involving a car
A car crashed on the A223 in Bromley at 00:08 on Wednesday 29 December 1982. There were four casualties: two people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Dec 1982
- Wednesday, 00:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 4
- 2 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40259, longitude 0.11767, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010PM0800
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 223
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 September 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bromley, 15 September 1986
At the same spotRef 198601PN00490
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A223 in Bromley, 7 December 1992
10 m awayRef 199201PN00501
Slight
Ford Orion crash on a C road in Bromley, 21 November 1997
22 m awayRef 199701PY01257
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Bromley, 3 April 2025
32 m awayRef 2025010567677
Slight
Car crash on the A224 in Bromley, 30 September 1987
36 m awayRef 198701PN00495
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Bromley, 17 August 1996
36 m awayRef 199601PY00734
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 1982010PM0800 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 1982.