A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 2 December 2005 at 16:26 involving a Volkswagen Lupo
A Volkswagen Lupo hit a pedestrian on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 16:26 on Friday 2 December 2005. A 16-year-old female pedestrian 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
- 2 Dec 2005
- Friday, 16:26
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Lupo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36269, longitude -0.30791, 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
- 200501VK30362
- 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
- 243
- 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
- 14%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 86%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2008.
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 11 November 2008
At the same spotRef 200801VK30321
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 29 November 2014
At the same spotRef 201401VK30438
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 24 March 2000
10 m awayRef 200001VK00166
Serious
Audi A4 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 21 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199701VK00591
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 14 February 2011
10 m awayRef 201101VK30026
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 24 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200601VK30194
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Lupo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Lupo)
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 200501VK30362 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 2005.