B551 crash in Barnet on 12 May 1983 at 15:10 involving a car
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 May 1983
- Thursday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58368, longitude -0.22179, in the NW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010SW0309
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 551
- 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 with high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the B551 in Barnet, 30 November 1989
10 m awayRef 198901SV00766
Serious
Car crash on the B551 in Barnet, 1 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198801SW00318
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B551 in Barnet, 19 May 1993
14 m awayRef 199301SV00276
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on the B551 in Barnet, 21 April 2025
18 m awayRef 2025010570622
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B551 in Barnet, 11 December 1997
22 m awayRef 199701SC00998
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the B551 in Barnet, 5 December 2022
27 m awayRef 2022010414665
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1983010SW0309 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1983.