Unclassified road crash in Kensington and Chelsea SW1X on 28 March 1985 at 17:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea at 17:10 on Thursday 28 March 1985. A 38-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Mar 1985
- Thursday, 17:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49919, longitude -0.1601, in the SW1X postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
Map of where the crash happened in Kensington and Chelsea
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501BC00093
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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 3 April 1984.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 3 April 1984
10 m awayRef 198401BC00142
Slight
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 9 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198501BC00303
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3216 in Kensington and Chelsea, 24 November 1992
14 m awayRef 199201BC00407
Slight
LEVC TX crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 22 July 2025
14 m awayRef 2025010588198
Slight
Mercedes V Class crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 26 December 2025
16 m awayRef 2025010617531
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 December 1985
20 m awayRef 198501BC00492
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, 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 198501BC00093 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 1985.