B353 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 14 May 1983 at 12:00 involving a motor scooter
A motor scooter and a car were involved in a crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames at 12:00 on Saturday 14 May 1983. The 24-year-old female rider of the motor scooter 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
- 14 May 1983
- Saturday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motor scooter and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46561, longitude -0.28858, in the TW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TR0153
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 353
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 October 2018.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 6 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010137267
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198501TR00107
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 12 July 2024
4 m awayRef 2024010521429
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 19 January 1992
10 m awayRef 199201TW00040
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 30 January 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TW00047
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B353 in Richmond upon Thames, 15 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TW00484
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motor scooter
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 24, motor scooter rider or passenger, on vehicle 1 (Motor scooter)
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 1983010TR0153 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.