Serious A21 crash in Bromley on 8 January 1998 at 14:46 involving a Nissan Primera
A Nissan Primera and an Audi 80 were involved in a crash on the A21 in Bromley at 14:46 on Thursday 8 January 1998. The 21-year-old male driver of the Nissan Primera and an 18-year-old female passenger in the Nissan Primera were seriously injured and the 53-year-old female driver of the Audi 80 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jan 1998
- Thursday, 14:46
- Vehicles
- 2
- Nissan Primera and Audi 80
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37466, longitude 0.04468, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801PY00049
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 21
- 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
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 4 January 2005.
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Nissan Primera
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Nissan Primera)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Audi 80)
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 199801PY00049 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 1998.