Serious C road crash in Bromley BR1 on 22 July 1987 at 06:54 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Bromley at 06:54 on Wednesday 22 July 1987. The 50-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Jul 1987
- Wednesday, 06:54
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4103, longitude 0.02786, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198701PR00436
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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 2 July 1983.
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Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 2 July 1983
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Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 30 March 1986
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 50, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198701PR00436 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 1987.