B237 crash in Wandsworth on 12 February 1983 at 19:12 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B237 in Wandsworth at 19:12 on Saturday 12 February 1983. A 12-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 12 Feb 1983
- Saturday, 19:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44269, longitude -0.16439, in the SW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010WD0096
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 237
- 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
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 December 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 1 December 2023
9 m awayRef 2023010481587
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 3 December 1984
10 m awayRef 198401WD00655
Serious
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 10 October 2008
10 m awayRef 200801WW50617
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 30 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501WD00596
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 24 November 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010WD0620
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 11 July 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010WD0390
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 12, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 1983010WD0096 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.