A3 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 23 September 1992 at 05:10 involving a van
A van crashed on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames at 05:10 on Wednesday 23 September 1992. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 1992
- Wednesday, 05:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38254, longitude -0.27745, in the KT5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199201VK00720
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Capri crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 7 November 1994
At the same spotRef 199401VK00877
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 4 September 2003
14 m awayRef 200301TE00455
Serious
Suzuki GSX 600 crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 18 January 1999
14 m awayRef 199901VK00038
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 11 October 2025
15 m awayRef 2025010603151
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 30 May 1988
20 m awayRef 198801VD00544
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 1 March 1985
22 m awayRef 198501VD00181
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
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 199201VK00720 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Kingston upon Thames road accident statistics for 1992.