A205 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 23 February 2001 at 17:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A bicycle and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames at 17:50 on Friday 23 February 2001. The 22-year-old male cyclist 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
- 23 Feb 2001
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46415, longitude -0.27235, in the SW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the East Sheen, Richmond upon Thames, SW14 7NQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200101TW00098
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 205
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 2023.
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 6 June 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010447490
Slight
Audi A6 crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 19 April 2019
7 m awayRef 2019010176016
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 4 February 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TR00036
Slight
Van crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 31 July 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TR00184
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 19 January 1990
10 m awayRef 199001TW00044
Slight
Car crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 November 2015
10 m awayRef 201501TW60400
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 22, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
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 200101TW00098 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 2001.