C road crash in Westminster W1K on 11 July 1983 at 00:27 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 00:27 on Monday 11 July 1983. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jul 1983
- Monday, 00:27
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51043, longitude -0.15432, in the W1K postcode district and within the built-up area of the City of Westminster.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010CD0156
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- 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 3 November 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 3 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801CD00219
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Motorcycle crash on a C road in Westminster, 22 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198901CD00231
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Ford Orion crash on a C road in Westminster, 31 March 1993
At the same spotRef 199301CD00081
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London Taxis Int. TX1 crash on a C road in Westminster, 25 August 2004
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Piaggio Vespa crash on a C road in Westminster, 28 June 2005
10 m awayRef 200501CW10825
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 21, 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 1983010CD0156 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.