B280 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 12 November 1998 at 09:20 involving a Renault Megane
Two Renault Meganes were involved in a crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames at 09:20 on Thursday 12 November 1998. The 32-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Nov 1998
- Thursday, 09:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Megane and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34066, longitude -0.31621, in the KT9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199801VK00855
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 280
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 1998.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 March 1998
14 m awayRef 199801VK00223
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 19 November 2001
45 m awayRef 200101VK00430
Slight
Scania crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 30 May 2013
50 m awayRef 201301VK30158
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 14 December 2022
91 m awayRef 2022010416315
Slight
Car crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 November 1986
94 m awayRef 198601VD01178
Slight
Case IH crash on the B280 in Kingston upon Thames, 18 August 2015
108 m awayRef 201501VK30304
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Megane
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Megane)
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 199801VK00855 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 1998.