A306 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 18 January 1997 at 15:30 involving a Honda motorcycle
A Honda motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames at 15:30 on Saturday 18 January 1997. The 35-year-old male rider of the Honda motorcycle 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
- 18 Jan 1997
- Saturday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Honda and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46822, longitude -0.24011, in the SW13 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701TW00038
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 306
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 7 February 1996.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 7 February 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TW00056
Slight
Audi crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 20 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TW00466
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 2 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TW00640
Slight
Triumph crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 30 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TW00789
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 17 July 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010257054
Serious
Mercedes A Class crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 14 August 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010324770
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Honda
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 35, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Honda)
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 199701TW00038 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 1997.