A222 crash in Bromley on 23 December 1989 at 15:10 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach and a car were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bromley at 15:10 on Saturday 23 December 1989. A 49-year-old female passenger in the bus or coach was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1989
- Saturday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bus or coach and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40625, longitude 0.01748, in the BR1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901PR00850
- 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
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 28 November 2023.
Serious
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A222 in Bromley, 28 November 2023
5 m awayRef 2023010480683
Slight
Yamaha X crash on the A222 in Bromley, 5 July 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010585278
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the A222 in Bromley, 28 October 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010407622
Slight
Lexus RX400 crash on the A222 in Bromley, 5 July 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010191668
Serious
Hyundai i20 crash on the A222 in Bromley, 14 June 2022
7 m awayRef 2022010382258
Slight
Leyland crash on the A222 in Bromley, 25 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199201PR00483
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 49, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 198901PR00850 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.