A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 4 November 2009 at 15:30 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 15:30 on Wednesday 4 November 2009. The 52-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Nov 2009
- Wednesday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33849, longitude -0.31972, 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 2NS area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kingston upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200901VK30352
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 27 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200901VK30124
Slight
Vauxhall Viva crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 10 April 1991
At the same spotRef 199101VK00330
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 2 August 2004
At the same spotRef 200401VK00193
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 April 1994
At the same spotRef 199401VK00316
Slight
Toyota Corolla crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 2 June 1992
At the same spotRef 199201VK00399
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 2 October 2001
10 m awayRef 200101VK00356
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Lane or location
- Footway (pavement)
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 52 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 52, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 200901VK30352 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 2009.