A308 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 25 October 1983 at 23:45 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a taxi were involved in a crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea at 23:45 on Tuesday 25 October 1983. The 23-year-old female cyclist 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Oct 1983
- Tuesday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and taxi
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49357, longitude -0.16912, 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
- 1983010BC0440
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- C
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 February 2018.
Slight
Van crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 6 February 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010088401
Slight
Citroen C3 crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 23 November 2025
3 m awayRef 2025010611082
Slight
London Taxis Int. TX4 crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 13 July 2024
5 m awayRef 2024010521655
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 15 February 2014
10 m awayRef 201401BS70077
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 2 December 1994
10 m awayRef 199401BS00261
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 9 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200501BS70269
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Taxi
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 23, on vehicle 1 (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 1983010BC0440 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.