C road crash in Bromley BR7 on 17 July 1996 at 21:35 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier and a Nissan Bluebird were involved in a crash on a C road in Bromley at 21:35 on Wednesday 17 July 1996. The 25-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jul 1996
- Wednesday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Cavalier and Nissan Bluebird
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41292, longitude 0.04783, in the BR7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199601PY00639
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 28 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601PR00324
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Bromley, 10 March 1999
22 m awayRef 199901PY00293
Slight
Citroen AX crash on a C road in Bromley, 6 June 2002
28 m awayRef 200201PY00563
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 6 July 1986
30 m awayRef 198601PR00452
Serious
Bicycle crash on a C road in Bromley, 19 August 1989
30 m awayRef 198901PR00555
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Bromley, 10 December 1983
32 m awayRef 1983010PM0710
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan Bluebird
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199601PY00639 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 1996.