A222 crash in Bromley on 30 December 1998 at 22:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A motorcycle and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A222 in Bromley at 22:10 on Wednesday 30 December 1998. The 19-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 17-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Dec 1998
- Wednesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40539, longitude 0.01528, in the BR1 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
- 199801PY01325
- Council area
- Bromley
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 222
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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 16 November 2005.
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 16 November 2005
At the same spotRef 200501PY20892
Serious
Dennis crash on the A222 in Bromley, 2 March 1998
At the same spotRef 199801PY00218
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A222 in Bromley, 29 April 2000
10 m awayRef 200001PY00345
Slight
Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Bromley, 2 April 2001
10 m awayRef 200101PY00339
Serious
Bus crash on the A21 in Bromley, 2 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501PR00682
Slight
Bus crash on the A21 in Bromley, 18 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198401PR00227
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 17, 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 199801PY01325 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.