A233 crash in Bromley on 15 August 1997 at 23:36 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the A233 in Bromley at 23:36 on Friday 15 August 1997. The 23-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta 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
- 15 Aug 1997
- Friday, 23:36
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30978, longitude 0.03677, in the TN16 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
- 199701PY00822
- 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
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 28 August 2007.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A233 in Bromley, 28 August 2007
At the same spotRef 200701PY20159
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A233 in Bromley, 5 July 2006
At the same spotRef 200601PY20442
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A233 in Bromley, 28 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701PN00606
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A233 in Bromley, 16 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010PM0365
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A233 in Bromley, 22 December 2007
At the same spotRef 200701PY20412
Slight
Car crash on the A233 in Bromley, 24 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401PN00101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199701PY00822 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.