A4 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 30 August 1983 at 18:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea at 18:30 on Tuesday 30 August 1983. The 35-year-old male cyclist 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
- 30 Aug 1983
- Tuesday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49551, longitude -0.17768, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010BC0331
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 4
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 14 June 1989.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198901BC00213
Slight
Kawasaki ZR750 crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 July 2009
10 m awayRef 200901BS70355
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 7 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801BS00283
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 7 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200501BS70489
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 2 November 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010143009
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A4 in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 October 1997
10 m awayRef 199701BS00602
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 35, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 1983010BC0331 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.