Serious A3 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 15 December 1995 at 01:25 involving a Peugeot 405
A Peugeot 405 crashed on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames at 01:25 on Friday 15 December 1995. The 36-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 15 Dec 1995
- Friday, 01:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Peugeot 405
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40188, longitude -0.2415, in the KT3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199501ZM00717
- 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
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 December 2021.
Serious
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Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A3 in Merton, 25 August 2022
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Slight
BMW 7 Series crash on the A3 in Merton, 23 November 2010
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Slight
Mercedes S Class crash on the A3 in Merton, 12 September 2023
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Car crash on the A3 in Merton, 26 February 1988
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Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A3 in Merton, 22 September 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Peugeot 405
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Peugeot 405)
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 199501ZM00717 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 1995.