B349 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 23 February 1983 at 15:45 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames at 15:45 on Wednesday 23 February 1983. The 30-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 23 Feb 1983
- Wednesday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47137, longitude -0.24618, in the SW13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TR0055
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 349
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 2010.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 3 November 2010
14 m awayRef 201001TW60359
Slight
Car crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 January 1989
14 m awayRef 198901TW00007
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 22 March 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010567216
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 6 September 2001
20 m awayRef 200101TW00461
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 1 March 2020
23 m awayRef 2020010239335
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 7 November 2017
32 m awayRef 2017010068669
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 1983010TR0055 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 1983.