Serious B304 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 2 November 1985 at 16:55 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea at 16:55 on Saturday 2 November 1985. An 11-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Nov 1985
- Saturday, 16:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48791, longitude -0.16906, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501BC00419
- 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
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 21 October 2025.
Serious
Yamaha GPD crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 October 2025
At the same spotRef 2025010604925
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 March 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00099
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 June 1984
At the same spotRef 198401BC00249
Slight
Volvo 850 crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200801BS70593
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200401BS00150
Slight
Bus crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 30 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198401BC00275
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 11, 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 198501BC00419 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.