Serious A213 crash in Bromley on 27 November 1989 at 22:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A213 in Bromley at 22:15 on Monday 27 November 1989. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 27 Nov 1989
- Monday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40872, longitude -0.05934, in the SE20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901PR00780
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 213
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 214
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 11 October 2015.
Slight
London Taxis Int. Txii crash on the A213 in Bromley, 11 October 2015
At the same spotRef 201501PY20706
Serious
Volvo crash on the A213 in Bromley, 24 February 1999
At the same spotRef 199901PY00104
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A213 in Bromley, 19 December 2011
At the same spotRef 201101PY20681
Slight
Car crash on the A213 in Bromley, 17 April 2003
At the same spotRef 200301PY00288
Slight
Honda HR-V crash on the A213 in Bromley, 24 September 2020
5 m awayRef 2020010269770
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A213 in Bromley, 30 January 2025
7 m awayRef 2025010556586
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198901PR00780 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.