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Serious A224 crash in Bromley on 2 January 1983 at 15:40 involving a car

A car hit two pedestrians on the A224 in Bromley at 15:40 on Sunday 2 January 1983. There were four casualties: one person was seriously injured and three were slightly injured. Two of them were pedestrians.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
2 Jan 1983
Sunday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
4
1 seriously injured, 3 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36531, longitude 0.11035, in the BR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010PM0001
Council area
Bromley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
224
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 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
Daylight
Weather
Fine, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 1984.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    27 years

Casualties (4)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 59, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    On footway or verge

  • Casualty 2: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 3: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Female, aged 53, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

  • Casualty 4: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 25, 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 1983010PM0001 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 1983.