C road crash in Richmond upon Thames TW12 on 13 June 2012 at 22:15 involving a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle
A car and a Piaggio Vespa motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames at 22:15 on Wednesday 13 June 2012. The 21-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Vespa motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jun 2012
- Wednesday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Piaggio Vespa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.41839, longitude -0.37388, in the TW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hampton North, Richmond upon Thames, TW12 3QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TW60212
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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
- 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
- 13%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 87%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 4 July 2005.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 4 July 2005
At the same spotRef 200501TW60229
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 26 April 1985
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Slight
Car crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 13 November 1991
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Volvo crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 21 January 2002
At the same spotRef 200201TW00067
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Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 30 March 2005
At the same spotRef 200501TW60090
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Richmond upon Thames, 22 March 1985
At the same spotRef 198501TW00117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Vehicle 2: Piaggio Vespa
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 21, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 2 (Piaggio Vespa)
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 201201TW60212 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 2012.