A233 crash in Bromley on 2 May 1983 at 18:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A233 in Bromley at 18:15 on Monday 2 May 1983. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and an 18-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 May 1983
- Monday, 18:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.292, longitude 0.05621, in the TN16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010PM0240
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 May 1993.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A233 in Bromley, 21 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199301PN00180
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A233 in Sevenoaks, 21 July 2019
31 m awayRef 2019460868061
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A233 in Bromley, 16 December 1992
32 m awayRef 199201PN00503
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A233 in Bromley, 5 May 2005
36 m awayRef 200501PY20683
Slight
Suzuki Baleno crash on the A233 in Bromley, 9 May 2002
42 m awayRef 200201PY00458
Serious
Suzuki Jimny crash on the A233 in Sevenoaks, 29 June 2009
42 m awayRef 2009460173948
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1983010PM0240 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.