Serious A3 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 18 July 1983 at 13:20 involving a bicycle
A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames at 13:20 on Monday 18 July 1983. The 41-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Jul 1983
- Monday, 13:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3755, longitude -0.31292, in the KT9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010VD0680
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 309
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 April 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 1 April 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010VD0317
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 29 June 1988
10 m awayRef 198801VD00632
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 23 December 1989
10 m awayRef 198901VK01271
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 3 January 1991
10 m awayRef 199101VK00014
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 25 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198701VD00142
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 3 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198401VD00308
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 41, 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 1983010VD0680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kingston upon Thames road accident statistics for 1983.