A222 crash in Bromley on 23 November 1988 at 06:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bromley at 06:30 on Wednesday 23 November 1988. The 17-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Nov 1988
- Wednesday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40641, longitude 0.00311, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198801PR00736
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 June 1982.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A222 in Bromley, 16 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010PR0469
Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A222 in Bromley, 24 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PY00909
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A222 in Bromley, 5 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200201PY00499
Serious
Mercedes C Class crash on the A222 in Bromley, 8 June 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010579437
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A222 in Bromley, 6 April 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010PR0219
Slight
Honda crash on the A222 in Bromley, 15 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PR00278
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198801PR00736 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 1988.