Serious unclassified road crash in Richmond upon Thames TW10 on 17 October 1983 at 17:20 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames at 17:20 on Monday 17 October 1983. A female passenger was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Oct 1983
- Monday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43563, longitude -0.31689, in the TW10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TR0315
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 41 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 1997.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 6 December 1997
41 m awayRef 199701TW00756
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 16 June 1996
57 m awayRef 199601TW00344
Serious
Austin Montego crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 18 September 1990
81 m awayRef 199001TW00614
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 20 September 1983
95 m awayRef 1983010TR0274
Slight
Volkswagen LT 35 crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 6 July 2006
95 m awayRef 200601TW60228
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 6 June 1990
102 m awayRef 199001TW00386
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 1983010TR0315 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.