B323 crash in Westminster on 4 August 1983 at 23:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B323 in Westminster at 23:20 on Thursday 4 August 1983. The 20-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Aug 1983
- Thursday, 23:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49507, longitude -0.13275, 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
- 1983010AR0191
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 30 November 2021.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B323 in Westminster, 30 November 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010347070
Slight
Car crash on the B323 in Westminster, 17 April 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010302154
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the B323 in Westminster, 19 November 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010411595
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B323 in Westminster, 21 October 2004
10 m awayRef 200401DM01420
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B323 in Westminster, 11 February 2010
10 m awayRef 201001TA00011
Slight
Car crash on the B323 in Westminster, 2 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198601AR00130
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1983010AR0191 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.