A308 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 26 March 2004 at 18:00 involving an Audi A4
A motorcycle and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames at 18:00 on Friday 26 March 2004. The 18-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- 26 Mar 2004
- Friday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41053, longitude -0.31348, in the KT1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401TW00165
- 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
- 308
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 26 November 1995.
Slight
Honda crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199501TW00776
Slight
Scania crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 23 June 2014
At the same spotRef 201401TW60271
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 October 1999
At the same spotRef 199901TW00522
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 11 July 1999
10 m awayRef 199901TW00317
Serious
Car crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 11 December 1987
10 m awayRef 198701TW00497
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A308 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 March 1993
10 m awayRef 199301TW00151
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,393 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 18, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 200401TW00165 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 2004.