A214 crash in Bromley on 23 November 1983 at 16:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 16:45 on Wednesday 23 November 1983. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 1983
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.389, longitude -0.02597, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010PR0810
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 214
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 1982.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 22 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PR0265
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 13 April 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010569450
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 19 May 1984
10 m awayRef 198401PR00300
Slight
Suzuki Vitara crash on the A214 in Bromley, 10 November 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PR00587
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A214 in Bromley, 17 July 2016
14 m awayRef 201601PY20463
Serious
Gilera Runner 125 crash on the A214 in Bromley, 16 April 2005
20 m awayRef 200501PY20315
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1983010PR0810 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.