B302 crash in Kensington and Chelsea on 15 August 1998 at 06:05 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara crashed on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea at 06:05 on Saturday 15 August 1998. The 28-year-old female driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Aug 1998
- Saturday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Suzuki Vitara
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48423, longitude -0.16387, in the SW3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801BS00537
- Council area
- Kensington and Chelsea
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 302
- 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
- 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 20 May 2000.
Slight
Piaggio crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 20 May 2000
At the same spotRef 200001BS00380
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Car crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 17 April 2001
At the same spotRef 200101BS00288
Slight
Car crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 11 August 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00306
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Car crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 May 1988
At the same spotRef 198801BC00191
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Motorcycle crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 16 July 1998
At the same spotRef 199801BS00459
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the B302 in Kensington and Chelsea, 4 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401BS70360
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 199801BS00537 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 1998.