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Serious A208 crash in Bromley on 23 June 1983 at 17:30 involving a car

A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A208 in Bromley at 17:30 on Thursday 23 June 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Jun 1983
Thursday, 17:30
Vehicles
2
Car and motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39395, longitude 0.08809, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.

Map of where the crash happened in Bromley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010PM0324
Council area
Bromley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
208
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 22 June 1998.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    22 years

  • Vehicle 2: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 1983010PM0324 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.