A314 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 9 November 2004 at 17:00 involving a Suzuki Vitara
A Suzuki Vitara and a car were involved in a crash on the A314 in Richmond upon Thames at 17:00 on Tuesday 9 November 2004. The 46-year-old female driver of the Suzuki Vitara was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Nov 2004
- Tuesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Suzuki Vitara and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45562, longitude -0.374, in the TW4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Whitton, Richmond upon Thames, TW3 2LW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200401TW00473
- 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
- 314
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 4%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 96%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 July 2025.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A314 in Richmond upon Thames, 4 July 2025
4 m awayRef 2025010585056
Serious
Austin Montego crash on the A314 in Richmond upon Thames, 17 June 1991
10 m awayRef 199101TW00344
Slight
Car crash on the A314 in Richmond upon Thames, 23 September 1985
10 m awayRef 198501TW00395
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 20 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TW00352
Slight
Ford Granada crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 27 March 1990
10 m awayRef 199001TW00201
Slight
Car crash on the A314 in Richmond upon Thames, 21 August 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010TW0361
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Suzuki Vitara
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,590 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Suzuki Vitara)
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 200401TW00473 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.