B251 crash in Bromley on 23 December 1983 at 18:10 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B251 in Bromley at 18:10 on Friday 23 December 1983. The 39-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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1983
- Friday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38807, longitude 0.00274, in the BR4 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
- 1983010PR0885
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 251
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
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 30 June 1990.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the B251 in Bromley, 30 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PR00381
Slight
Bus crash on the B251 in Bromley, 1 September 1990
At the same spotRef 199001PR00493
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B251 in Bromley, 24 October 1991
At the same spotRef 199101PR00544
Slight
Car crash on the B251 in Bromley, 25 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PR00196
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B251 in Bromley, 29 October 2021
9 m awayRef 2021010340351
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B251 in Bromley, 1 April 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010368790
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 1983010PR0885 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.