A2043 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 15 November 2008 at 12:20 involving a Dennis bus
A Dennis bus hit a pedestrian on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames at 12:20 on Saturday 15 November 2008. A 24-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2008
- Saturday, 12:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Dennis
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40647, longitude -0.282, in the KT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Norbiton, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 3PL area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200801VK30337
- 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
- 2043
- 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
- 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
- 9%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 91%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2003.
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 December 2003
10 m awayRef 200301VK00373
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 7 April 1992
10 m awayRef 199201VK00225
Slight
Peugeot 205 crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 15 October 1990
10 m awayRef 199001VK00959
Slight
Car crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 November 1985
10 m awayRef 198501VD01169
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200401VK09026
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A2043 in Kingston upon Thames, 7 May 2007
14 m awayRef 200701VK30108
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Dennis
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Lane or location
- Bus lane or busway
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 8,268 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 24, hit by vehicle 1 (Dennis)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
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 200801VK30337 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 2008.