Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 12 April 1986 at 19:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 19:55 on Saturday 12 April 1986. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 20-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 1986
- Saturday, 19:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35015, longitude 0.08868, in the BR6 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601PN00181
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, 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 14 July 2001.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A21 in Bromley, 14 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101PY00715
Slight
Van crash on the A21 in Bromley, 29 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901PY20291
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 23 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PM0416
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Bromley, 1 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701PY00333
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on a C road in Bromley, 24 December 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010227030
Slight
Vauxhall Adam crash on the A21 in Bromley, 11 October 2024
6 m awayRef 2024010537117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 198601PN00181 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 1986.