B230 crash in Bromley on 4 February 1998 at 08:40 involving a Vauxhall Astramax van
A Vauxhall Astramax van and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the B230 in Bromley at 08:40 on Wednesday 4 February 1998. The 33-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astramax van was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1998
- Wednesday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Astramax and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38834, longitude -0.0237, in the BR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801PY00137
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 230
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 2002.
Slight
Piaggio NRG crash on the B230 in Bromley, 7 November 2002
10 m awayRef 200201PY01099
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B230 in Bromley, 1 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PY00474
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B230 in Bromley, 6 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PY00038
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B230 in Bromley, 12 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198401PR00785
Slight
Car crash on the B230 in Bromley, 6 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198601PR00143
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B230 in Bromley, 31 October 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010142573
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astramax
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,699 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astramax)
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 199801PY00137 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.