Unclassified road crash in Bromley BR3 on 18 November 1985 at 09:00 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Bromley at 09:00 on Monday 18 November 1985. The 38-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1985
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40688, longitude -0.03541, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501PR00734
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 December 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 23 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198501PR00831
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 5 July 2005
45 m awayRef 200501PY20534
Slight
Honda NSS crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 10 October 2024
61 m awayRef 2024010537156
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 6 March 2016
67 m awayRef 201601PY20119
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A234 in Bromley, 11 August 1996
81 m awayRef 199601PY00704
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 5 July 2017
92 m awayRef 2017010049044
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 198501PR00734 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.