C road crash in Westminster W9 on 5 March 1983 at 09:25 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Westminster at 09:25 on Saturday 5 March 1983. An 18-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Mar 1983
- Saturday, 09:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.52829, longitude -0.18128, in the W9 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
- 1983010DR0058
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 5
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 14 May 1992.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Westminster, 14 May 1992
At the same spotRef 199201DD00201
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A5 in Westminster, 21 September 2002
At the same spotRef 200201DM01626
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A5 in Westminster, 5 March 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DR0057
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 15 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010DR0164
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 2 June 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010DD0233
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Westminster, 8 February 1984
At the same spotRef 198401DR00038
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1983010DR0058 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.