Serious A307 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 23 December 2003 at 09:17 involving a Vauxhall Carlton
A Vauxhall Carlton crashed on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames at 09:17 on Tuesday 23 December 2003. The 45-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 23 Dec 2003
- Tuesday, 09:17
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Carlton
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41917, longitude -0.30195, in the KT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hampton Wick & South Teddington, Richmond upon Thames, KT1 4JB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200301VK09006
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 307
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 18 May 2014
10 m awayRef 201401VK30191
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 9 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198901VK00217
Serious
Dodge Nitro crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 13 April 2014
10 m awayRef 201401VK30137
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 12 July 1984
14 m awayRef 198401VD00689
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 2 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199701VK00842
Serious
Taxi crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 September 2001
14 m awayRef 200101VK00343
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Carlton
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Carlton)
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 200301VK09006 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.