A21 crash in Bromley on 26 August 1998 at 17:02 involving a Vauxhall Astra
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Aug 1998
- Wednesday, 17:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39736, longitude 0.02183, in the BR2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bromley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801PY00824
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 March 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A21 in Bromley, 5 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701PY00214
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 7 June 2014
10 m awayRef 201401PY20346
Slight
Renault Trucks crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 4 April 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010030352
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A21 in Bromley, 30 January 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PY00103
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A21 in Bromley, 19 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199801PY01214
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A21 in Bromley, 15 May 2014
10 m awayRef 201401PY20297
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 748 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 199801PY00824 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.