A4 crash in Westminster on 5 June 1983 at 16:00 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A4 in Westminster at 16:00 on Sunday 5 June 1983. The 24-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Jun 1983
- Sunday, 16:00
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51218, longitude -0.11735, in the WC2B 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
- 1983010CB0108
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 22 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401CB00128
Slight
Taxi crash on the A4 in Westminster, 20 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401CB00285
Slight
Bus crash on the A4 in Westminster, 5 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198401CB00069
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A4 in Westminster, 26 September 1993
14 m awayRef 199301CX00334
Slight
Car crash on the A4 in Westminster, 22 August 1984
14 m awayRef 198401CB00199
Fatal
Ford Transit Custom crash on the A4 in Westminster, 18 March 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010564612
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1983010CB0108 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.