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Serious A233 crash in Bromley on 9 August 1997 at 21:00 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle

A car and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A233 in Bromley at 21:00 on Saturday 9 August 1997. The 45-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki motorcycle was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Aug 1997
Saturday, 21:00
Vehicles
2
Car and Kawasaki
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35427, longitude 0.033, in the BR2 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Bromley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199701PY00805
Council area
Bromley
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
233
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
265

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 26 March 1987.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Turning right
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    North
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years
    Engine capacity
    1,231 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    13 years

  • Vehicle 2: Kawasaki

    Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Slowing or stopping
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    45 years
    Engine capacity
    805 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    1 year

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 45, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)

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 199701PY00805 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 1997.