Serious C road crash in Bromley BR5 on 12 December 1997 at 18:33 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf hit a pedestrian on a C road in Bromley at 18:33 on Friday 12 December 1997. An 18-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1997
- Friday, 18:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39059, longitude 0.11482, in the BR5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701PY01346
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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 6 April 1985.
Slight
Van crash on the A223 in Bromley, 6 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PN00161
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bromley, 15 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PN00362
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A223 in Bromley, 21 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198501PN00569
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on a C road in Bromley, 3 January 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010552172
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on a C road in Bromley, 18 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199601PY00036
Slight
Car crash on the A223 in Bromley, 17 August 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010PM0438
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199701PY01346 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.