A312 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 23 February 1983 at 16:30 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames at 16:30 on Wednesday 23 February 1983. The 17-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Feb 1983
- Wednesday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.435, longitude -0.37432, in the TW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TW0096
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 312
- 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 26 February 2002.
Slight
Vauxhall Tigra crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 February 2002
10 m awayRef 200201TW00156
Slight
Dennis crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 29 November 2010
14 m awayRef 201001TW60399
Slight
Honda crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 16 May 2005
14 m awayRef 200501TW60154
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 20 October 1997
20 m awayRef 199701TD00762
Slight
Audi Q3 crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 29 December 2025
21 m awayRef 2025010617933
Slight
Car crash on the A312 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 May 1984
22 m awayRef 198401TW00175
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 1983010TW0096 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.