A214 crash in Bromley on 21 September 1985 at 22:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A214 in Bromley at 22:50 on Saturday 21 September 1985. The 36-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 and a 39-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Sep 1985
- Saturday, 22:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40306, longitude -0.0547, 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
- 198501PR00587
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- 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 30 August 2015.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A214 in Bromley, 30 August 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PY20608
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 12 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PY20803
Slight
Car crash on the A214 in Bromley, 5 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198901PR00085
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A214 in Bromley, 20 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199001PR00048
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 29 May 2020
14 m awayRef 2020010249552
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A214 in Bromley, 10 January 2020
14 m awayRef 2020010229702
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 39, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198501PR00587 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 1985.