Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 23 July 1987 at 14:50 involving a car
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Jul 1987
- Thursday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40187, longitude 0.01599, 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
- 198701PR00451
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 22 July 1996.
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bromley, 22 July 1996
At the same spotRef 199601PY00645
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Bromley, 21 July 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010587951
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 10 January 1987
10 m awayRef 198701PR00018
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 17 November 1987
10 m awayRef 198701PR00698
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on a C road in Bromley, 1 April 2015
10 m awayRef 201501PY20231
Slight
Car crash on the A21 in Bromley, 24 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198701PR00106
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 70, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from nearside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198701PR00451 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.