Serious A310 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 18 October 1983 at 20:55 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames at 20:55 on Tuesday 18 October 1983. The 25-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Oct 1983
- Tuesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43146, longitude -0.32726, in the TW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TW0484
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 310
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 March 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 16 March 1986
22 m awayRef 198601TW00111
Slight
Car crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 27 May 1989
22 m awayRef 198901TW00345
Serious
Jaguar XK Series crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 16 November 1998
40 m awayRef 199801TW00661
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 14 September 1996
54 m awayRef 199601TW00561
Slight
Toyota Aygo crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 4 December 2015
63 m awayRef 201501TW60416
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A310 in Richmond upon Thames, 13 April 2025
69 m awayRef 2025010569385
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 25, 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 1983010TW0484 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.