A3003 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 14 November 1998 at 10:05 involving a Suzuki motorcycle
A Suzuki motorcycle and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames at 10:05 on Saturday 14 November 1998. The 37-year-old male rider of the Suzuki motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 1998
- Saturday, 10:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46954, longitude -0.26842, in the SW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801TW00669
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3003
- 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
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 2002.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 19 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TW00692
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 18 December 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TW00817
Slight
Car crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 20 December 1988
At the same spotRef 198801TR00340
Slight
Yamaha YZF R125 crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 3 September 2014
At the same spotRef 201401TW60375
Slight
Yamaha MT crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 23 January 2022
9 m awayRef 2022010356306
Slight
Volvo XC60 crash on the A3003 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 November 2025
9 m awayRef 2025010607745
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki
Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,496 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 37, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Suzuki)
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 199801TW00669 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.