A305 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 17 June 1983 at 08:50 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames at 08:50 on Friday 17 June 1983. An 18-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 1983
- Friday, 08:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45533, longitude -0.31084, in the TW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TW0293
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 305
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 December 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 6 December 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010TW0538
Slight
Car crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 17 November 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010TW0526
Slight
Austin Morris Mini crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TW00523
Slight
Dennis crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 23 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199701TW09025
Slight
Car crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 2 August 2021
7 m awayRef 2021010338865
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 1 July 1993
10 m awayRef 199301TW00376
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- On lay-by or hard shoulder
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Alighting
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 1983010TW0293 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.