Fatal A3212 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 29 September 1990 at 03:05 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea at 03:05 on Saturday 29 September 1990. The 24-year-old male driver and a 22-year-old male passenger were killed.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 29 Sep 1990
- Saturday, 03:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4833, longitude -0.16794, in the SW3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199001BC00372
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3212
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 30 January 2004.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 30 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200401BS00045
Slight
Honda CBR600F crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 September 2003
At the same spotRef 200301BS00535
Slight
Piaggio ET2 crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 19 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200601BS70239
Slight
Van crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701BS00501
Serious
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 21 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200401BS00518
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A3212 in Kensington and Chelsea, 14 September 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010465965
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
Casualty 2: Passenger
FatalMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 199001BC00372 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 1990.