A309 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 21 February 1998 at 21:25 involving a Kawasaki motorcycle
A Kawasaki motorcycle crashed on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames at 21:25 on Saturday 21 February 1998. The male rider was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Feb 1998
- Saturday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42141, longitude -0.3351, in the TW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801TW00136
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 309
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 358
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 20 June 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames, 20 June 2016
At the same spotRef 201601TW60226
Slight
Alfa Romeo 164 crash on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames, 18 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TW00811
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames, 28 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TW00099
Serious
Car crash on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames, 8 August 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010TW0336
Slight
Mercedes Vito crash on the A309 in Richmond upon Thames, 16 April 2012
At the same spotRef 201201TW60142
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B358 in Richmond upon Thames, 21 August 2000
At the same spotRef 200001TW00492
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Kawasaki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 749 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Kawasaki)
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 199801TW00136 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 1998.