Serious A208 crash in Bromley on 29 September 1995 at 08:00 involving a Yamaha motorcycle
A Yamaha motorcycle hit a pedestrian on the A208 in Bromley at 08:00 on Friday 29 September 1995. The 61-year-old male rider was seriously injured and a 13-year-old male pedestrian 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
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Sep 1995
- Friday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Yamaha
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41273, longitude 0.07356, in the BR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
Map of where the crash happened in Bromley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501PY00972
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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 slight injury crash on 15 June 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A208 in Bromley, 15 June 1994
At the same spotRef 199401PN00241
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A208 in Bromley, 21 December 2004
At the same spotRef 200401PY20800
Serious
Peugeot 309 crash on the A208 in Bromley, 3 November 2003
10 m awayRef 200301PY00754
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A208 in Bromley, 14 March 1994
10 m awayRef 199401PN00100
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A208 in Bromley, 20 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199101PN00181
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A208 in Bromley, 2 August 2023
12 m awayRef 2023010458505
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 195 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 61, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 13, hit by vehicle 1 (Yamaha)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 199501PY00972 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 1995.