Serious unclassified road crash in Bromley BR5 on 20 February 1983 at 13:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Bromley at 13:20 on Sunday 20 February 1983. A 4-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 1983
- Sunday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39522, longitude 0.12279, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010PM0086
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 1991.
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 27 March 1991
36 m awayRef 199101PN00118
Serious
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 27 August 2018
70 m awayRef 2018010129192
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 21 December 2020
88 m awayRef 2020010285911
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 27 September 1987
98 m awayRef 198701PN00486
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 17 May 2014
120 m awayRef 201401PY20298
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 9 August 2022
130 m awayRef 2022010393061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 4, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983010PM0086 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.