A305 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 23 March 2002 at 15:55 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo hit a pedestrian on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames at 15:55 on Saturday 23 March 2002. A 30-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 2002
- Saturday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44837, longitude -0.3249, in the TW1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Twickenham Riverside, Richmond upon Thames, TW1 1BE area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200201TW00190
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 305
- 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
- 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 April 1990.
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 20 April 1990
At the same spotRef 199001TW00245
Slight
Car crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TW00690
Serious
Nissan Sunny crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 December 1993
At the same spotRef 199301TW00732
Slight
Bus crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 10 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199101TW00192
Serious
Yamaha R crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025010590184
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A305 in Richmond upon Thames, 21 September 2005
10 m awayRef 200501TW60334
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,391 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 30, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 200201TW00190 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 2002.