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Serious A208 crash in Bromley on 8 January 1983 at 07:00 involving a car

A car crashed on the A208 in Bromley at 07:00 on Saturday 8 January 1983. The 25-year-old male driver was seriously injured and a 19-year-old male passenger and a 19-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
8 Jan 1983
Saturday, 07:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
3
1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40089, longitude 0.08754, in the BR7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bromley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010PM0013
Council area
Bromley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
208
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
C

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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 January 2018.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    25 years

Casualties (3)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 19, 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 1983010PM0013 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.