A232 crash in Bromley on 17 October 1992 at 12:30 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and an Austin Maestro were involved in a crash on the A232 in Bromley at 12:30 on Saturday 17 October 1992. The 20-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Oct 1992
- Saturday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Austin Maestro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37588, longitude -0.01576, in the BR4 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
- 199201PR00609
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 232
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 27 September 1992.
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A232 in Bromley, 27 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201PR00553
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A232 in Bromley, 6 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PR00195
Slight
Car crash on the A232 in Bromley, 3 February 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PR00067
Fatal
Mercedes C Class crash on the A232 in Bromley, 13 March 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010563662
Slight
Bus crash on the A232 in Bromley, 9 February 2022
5 m awayRef 2022010362681
Slight
Car crash on the A232 in Bromley, 14 March 2008
10 m awayRef 200801PY20147
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,296 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Austin Maestro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
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 199201PR00609 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 1992.