Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 18 January 1982 at 19:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and two cars were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 19:40 on Monday 18 January 1982. The 42-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- 18 Jan 1982
- Monday, 19:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Motorcycle and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39754, longitude 0.02213, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010PR0035
- 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
- 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 27 January 1994.
Slight
Leyland crash on the A21 in Bromley, 27 January 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PR00054
Serious
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 10 July 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010318429
Slight
Yamaha MT09 crash on the A21 in Bromley, 2 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010222394
Slight
Vauxhall Mokka crash on the A21 in Bromley, 21 October 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010604863
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A21 in Bromley, 20 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PR00292
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 3 September 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010PR0605
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 42, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1982010PR0035 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.