A5 crash in Westminster on 15 April 1983 at 07:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A5 in Westminster at 07:10 on Friday 15 April 1983. The 28-year-old female 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
- 15 Apr 1983
- Friday, 07:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.5134, longitude -0.16011, in the W1H 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
- 1983010DM0120
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- 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
- 40
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 5 June 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A40 in Westminster, 5 June 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DM0192
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 12 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DM0306
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 4 February 1989
At the same spotRef 198901DM00039
Slight
Bus crash on the A40 in Westminster, 11 November 1988
At the same spotRef 198801DD00546
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 12 November 1987
At the same spotRef 198701DM00544
Slight
Taxi crash on the A40 in Westminster, 13 April 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DM0119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 28, 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 1983010DM0120 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.