A3217 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 17 March 1983 at 13:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea at 13:30 on Thursday 17 March 1983. A 43-year-old male 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
- 17 Mar 1983
- Thursday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48953, longitude -0.16323, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010BC0089
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3217
- 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
- Zebra crossing
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 serious injury crash on 29 March 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 29 March 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BC00105
Slight
Car crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 2 December 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010613083
Serious
Car crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 12 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010BC0480
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199001BC00486
Slight
Car crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 30 July 1986
10 m awayRef 198601BC00276
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the A3217 in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 October 1992
14 m awayRef 199201BC00361
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 43, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 1983010BC0089 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 1983.