A222 crash in Bromley on 11 March 1989 at 01:04 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bromley at 01:04 on Saturday 11 March 1989. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Mar 1989
- Saturday, 01:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40497, longitude -0.03391, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901PR00188
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 May 1995.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A222 in Bromley, 15 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501PY00474
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A222 in Bromley, 30 January 2006
10 m awayRef 200601PY20052
Slight
Vauxhall Carlton crash on the A222 in Bromley, 2 August 1994
10 m awayRef 199401PR00456
Serious
Triumph Daytona 600 crash on the A222 in Bromley, 3 June 2009
10 m awayRef 200901PY20382
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the A222 in Bromley, 31 May 2012
14 m awayRef 201201PY20306
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A222 in Bromley, 1 December 2025
17 m awayRef 2025010612793
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 97 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 198901PR00188 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 1989.