B304 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 13 December 1984 at 21:45 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea at 21:45 on Thursday 13 December 1984. A 63-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1984
- Thursday, 21:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48484, longitude -0.16832, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198401BC00540
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 304
- 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
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2018.
Slight
Yamaha GPD 125 crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 February 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010087508
Slight
Carbodies Taxi crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 23 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501BS00716
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 28 August 1985
At the same spotRef 198501BC00329
Slight
Car crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 28 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198501BC00178
Slight
Car crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601BS00809
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 March 2025
5 m awayRef 2025010564435
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 63, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198401BC00540 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kensington and Chelsea road accident statistics for 1984.