A233 crash in Bromley on 14 October 1986 at 18:10 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A233 in Bromley at 18:10 on Tuesday 14 October 1986. The 57-year-old male driver of the van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a junction with more than four arms.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Oct 1986
- Tuesday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29245, longitude 0.05594, in the TN16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601PN00542
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 233
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Junction with more than four arms (not roundabout)
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 233
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 January 1991.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A233 in Bromley, 14 January 1991
At the same spotRef 199101PN00035
Slight
Car crash on the A233 in Bromley, 5 October 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PN00506
Serious
Car crash on the A233 in Bromley, 18 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PM0403
Slight
Car crash on the A233 in Bromley, 5 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PM0320
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A233 in Bromley, 24 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023011347831
Serious
Rieju Marathon crash on the A233 in Bromley, 3 March 2017
7 m awayRef 2017010024027
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 57, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 198601PN00542 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.