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A21 crash in Bromley on 1 October 1983 at 15:20 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 15:20 on Saturday 1 October 1983. The 15-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet roundabout with a 50 mph limit.

Severity
Slight
Date
1 Oct 1983
Saturday, 15:20
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35023, longitude 0.08869, in the BR6 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bromley

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1983010PM0532
Council area
Bromley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
21
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
50 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
A
Second road number
223

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 1996.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    15 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    60 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Male, aged 15, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 1983010PM0532 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.