B349 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 5 January 1989 at 08:20 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames at 08:20 on Thursday 5 January 1989. A 9-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 5 Jan 1989
- Thursday, 08:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47146, longitude -0.24632, in the SW13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198901TW00007
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 349
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 2020.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 1 March 2020
11 m awayRef 2020010239335
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 23 February 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010TR0055
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 3 November 2010
20 m awayRef 201001TW60359
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 7 November 2017
20 m awayRef 2017010068669
Slight
Taxi crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 December 2014
22 m awayRef 201401TW60533
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 22 March 2025
23 m awayRef 2025010567216
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 198901TW00007 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 1989.