B280 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 16 September 1983 at 19:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames at 19:30 on Friday 16 September 1983. The 66-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 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
- 16 Sep 1983
- Friday, 19:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33935, longitude -0.3131, in the KT9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Kingston upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010VD0886
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 280
- 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Involvement with previous collision
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 16 September 1983.
Serious
Car crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 16 September 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010VD0883
Slight
Van crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 12 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198401VD01149
Serious
Alfa Romeo Alfetta crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 4 May 1990
20 m awayRef 199001VK00434
Slight
Car crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 February 1997
32 m awayRef 199701ZP00173
Fatal
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 9 December 1991
32 m awayRef 199101VK01172
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 7 September 1994
42 m awayRef 199401VK00696
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 66 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 66, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 1983010VD0886 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.