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Serious A222 crash in Bromley on 1 December 1996 at 04:00 involving a Rover 800 Series

A Rover 800 Series crashed on the A222 in Bromley at 04:00 on Sunday 1 December 1996. A male passenger was seriously injured and the 26-year-old male driver 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
Serious
Date
1 Dec 1996
Sunday, 04:00
Vehicles
1
Rover 800 Series
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40938, longitude 0.06478, 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
199601PY01173
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
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
264

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 2 June 2001.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover 800 Series

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning left
    Travelling from
    East
    Travelling to
    South West
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside onto central reservation
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    26 years
    Engine capacity
    1,994 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    8 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 800 Series)

    Car passenger
    Front seat 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 199601PY01173 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.