A214 crash in Bromley on 22 October 1982 at 18:40 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 18:40 on Friday 22 October 1982. The 37-year-old male rider of the motor scooter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1982
- Friday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41181, longitude -0.06669, in the SE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010PR0757
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 214
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 1994.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A214 in Bromley, 20 December 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PR00791
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A214 in Bromley, 6 August 1991
At the same spotRef 199101PR00385
Slight
Bus crash on the A214 in Bromley, 22 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PR0650
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A214 in Bromley, 1 July 2020
6 m awayRef 2020010254278
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 5 November 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010607737
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 September 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010267492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1982010PR0757 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.