B378 crash in Spelthorne on 18 May 1983 at 08:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B378 in Spelthorne at 08:10 on Wednesday 18 May 1983. The 39-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1983
- Wednesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44519, longitude -0.4767, in the TW19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0340
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 378
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2003.
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 4 July 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RN39822
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 7 February 2006
22 m awayRef 200645SP80887
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 26 November 2005
22 m awayRef 200545SP77157
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 17 December 2004
22 m awayRef 200445SP62815
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 20 September 2012
22 m awayRef 201245SP74024
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 22 November 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TG00467
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 39, 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 1983010IW0340 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Spelthorne road accident statistics for 1983.