Unclassified road crash in Wandsworth SW11 on 24 March 1983 at 08:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wandsworth at 08:45 on Thursday 24 March 1983. An 11-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Mar 1983
- Thursday, 08:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46936, longitude -0.15626, in the SW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010WA0100
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 26 June 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wandsworth, 26 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198501WA00229
Slight
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Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Wandsworth, 7 April 2001
45 m awayRef 200101WW00351
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Wandsworth, 20 December 1983
45 m awayRef 1983010WA0459
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on an unclassified road in Wandsworth, 11 March 2004
45 m awayRef 200401WW00199
Slight
Volkswagen T-Roc crash on an unclassified road in Wandsworth, 9 November 2025
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 11, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983010WA0100 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 1983.