B323 crash in Westminster on 21 July 1983 at 08:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B323 in Westminster at 08:40 on Thursday 21 July 1983. The 41-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jul 1983
- Thursday, 08:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49474, longitude -0.12917, in the SW1P postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010AR0178
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 326
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 May 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the B326 in Westminster, 6 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601CW10589
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the B326 in Westminster, 28 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01483
Slight
Dennis crash on the B326 in Westminster, 6 July 2001
At the same spotRef 200101DM01349
Slight
Peugeot 505 crash on the B323 in Westminster, 22 June 1995
At the same spotRef 199501AB00234
Serious
Car crash on the B323 in Westminster, 24 November 1992
At the same spotRef 199201AB00433
Slight
Jaguar Sovereign crash on the B326 in Westminster, 2 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200901CW11091
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 41, 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 1983010AR0178 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.