Unclassified road crash in Westminster SW1E on 29 July 1983 at 11:37 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Westminster at 11:37 on Friday 29 July 1983. A 54-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Jul 1983
- Friday, 11:37
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50057, longitude -0.13916, in the SW1E postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010AD5032
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
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
- Dry
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 54, hit by vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983010AD5032 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 1983.