Unclassified road crash in Kingston upon Thames KT9 on 12 October 2003 at 17:00 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames at 17:00 on Sunday 12 October 2003. A 23-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Oct 2003
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3569, longitude -0.30511, in the KT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chessington South & Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, KT9 2ER area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301VK00329
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 15 July 1989.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 15 July 1989
36 m awayRef 198901VK00684
Slight
MCW crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 3 April 2002
36 m awayRef 200201VK00101
Slight
Renault 21 crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 12 June 1998
67 m awayRef 199801VK00437
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 15 March 1983
76 m awayRef 1983010VD0238
Serious
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 24 August 1985
76 m awayRef 198501VD00802
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 25 February 1989
81 m awayRef 198901VK00179
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 23, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
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 200301VK00329 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 2003.