Unclassified road crash in Westminster NW8 on 6 April 1983 at 16:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Westminster at 16:55 on Wednesday 6 April 1983. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Apr 1983
- Wednesday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5236, longitude -0.16878, in the NW8 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
- 1983010DD0147
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 December 2014.
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 20 August 1984
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Car crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 28 April 1989
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Van crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 9 September 1989
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Nissan Bluebird crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 17 March 1999
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HGV crash on an unclassified road in Westminster, 24 July 2015
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 1983010DD0147 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.