B265 crash in Bromley on 24 November 1988 at 17:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B265 in Bromley at 17:10 on Thursday 24 November 1988. The 26-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1988
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40084, longitude 0.0388, in the BR1 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
- 198801PR00737
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 265
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 16 April 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B265 in Bromley, 16 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PR0229
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B265 in Bromley, 15 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PR00541
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B265 in Bromley, 20 June 1988
At the same spotRef 198801PR00374
Serious
Car crash on the B265 in Bromley, 10 January 2017
At the same spotRef 2017010010827
Slight
Mazda CX-3 crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 16 May 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010575441
Slight
Mazda 626 crash on the B265 in Bromley, 27 March 1992
10 m awayRef 199201PR00162
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 67 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198801PR00737 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.