Serious A307 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 12 July 2012 at 07:00 involving a Honda XR125L motorcycle
A Honda XR125L motorcycle crashed on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames at 07:00 on Thursday 12 July 2012. The 37-year-old male rider was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Jul 2012
- Thursday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Honda XR125L
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44599, longitude -0.30325, in the TW10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ham, Petersham & Richmond Riverside, Richmond upon Thames, TW10 6RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Richmond upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201TW60233
- 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
- 307
- 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 June 2003.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 1 June 2003
At the same spotRef 200301TW00261
Serious
Citroen 2CV crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199301TW00185
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 27 September 1994
At the same spotRef 199401TW00539
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 4 August 1997
At the same spotRef 199701TW00485
Serious
Honda CB100N crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 29 May 1990
At the same spotRef 199001TW00352
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200501TW60479
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Honda XR125L
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 37, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Honda XR125L)
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 201201TW60233 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.