Serious B376 crash in Spelthorne on 24 July 1983 at 18:05 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B376 in Spelthorne at 18:05 on Sunday 24 July 1983. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Jul 1983
- Sunday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38824, longitude -0.43347, in the TW17 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0753
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 376
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 December 2001.
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the B376 in Spelthorne, 27 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200145SP16693
Slight
Car crash in Spelthorne, 1 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198401IW00464
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B376 in Spelthorne, 1 August 2025
18 m awayRef 2025451623640
Slight
Skoda Citigo crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 16 March 2017
18 m awayRef 2017450164973
Slight
Car crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 7 November 1986
28 m awayRef 198601TG00515
Slight
Talbot Alpine crash on the A244 in Spelthorne, 25 September 1992
28 m awayRef 199201TG00389
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 18, 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 1983010IW0753 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.