Fatal C road crash in Bromley BR2 on 29 December 1982 at 16:00 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Bromley at 16:00 on Wednesday 29 December 1982. A 79-year-old female passenger was killed and the 60-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 29 Dec 1982
- Wednesday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 killed, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39067, longitude 0.04482, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010PR0960
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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, 22 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1997.
Serious
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Bromley, 8 March 1997
22 m awayRef 199701PY00242
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 26 May 2016
41 m awayRef 201601PY20323
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on a C road in Bromley, 11 November 2025
50 m awayRef 2025010608965
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on a C road in Bromley, 15 September 2004
70 m awayRef 200401PY20486
Slight
Saab 900 crash on a C road in Bromley, 22 November 1993
73 m awayRef 199301PR00648
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 4 July 1988
80 m awayRef 198801PR00407
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
FatalFemale, aged 79, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 60, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1982010PR0960 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.