A305 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 27 December 1983 at 20:55 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames at 20:55 on Tuesday 27 December 1983. The 43-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Dec 1983
- Tuesday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43739, longitude -0.37164, in the TW13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010TW0595
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 305
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 2000.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 December 2000
At the same spotRef 200001TW00722
Slight
Bus crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 28 September 2016
10 m awayRef 2016010021879
Slight
Lorry crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 29 January 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TW00052
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 13 December 2018
10 m awayRef 2018010152087
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 August 2016
14 m awayRef 201601TW60305
Serious
Vauxhall Movano crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 21 May 2009
14 m awayRef 200901TW60152
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 43, 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 1983010TW0595 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.