A308 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 15 November 1987 at 12:00 involving a bicycle
A bicycle crashed on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea at 12:00 on Sunday 15 November 1987. The 21-year-old male cyclist 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
- 15 Nov 1987
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49155, longitude -0.17208, 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
- 198701BC00413
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 304
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 slight injury crash on 27 September 2004.
Slight
Volvo crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 27 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401BS00476
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 May 2008
At the same spotRef 200801BS72710
Slight
Piaggio Vespa crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 1 March 2013
At the same spotRef 201301BS70104
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 5 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010BC0250
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Kensington and Chelsea, 31 July 1987
At the same spotRef 198701BC00269
Slight
Honda NSC crash on the B304 in Kensington and Chelsea, 24 June 2022
1 m awayRef 2022010384334
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 21, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 198701BC00413 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 1987.