A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 22 March 2012 at 14:10 involving a Mercedes A Class
A Mercedes A Class and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 14:10 on Thursday 22 March 2012. The 20-year-old male cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Mar 2012
- Thursday, 14:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes A Class and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39113, longitude -0.30945, in the KT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Mark's & Seething Wells, Kingston upon Thames, KT6 4QR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201VK30072
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3370
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 2015.
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 29 July 2015
At the same spotRef 201501VK30258
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 18 March 2011
At the same spotRef 201101VK30067
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 July 2014
At the same spotRef 201401VK30254
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 6 September 2001
10 m awayRef 200101VK00316
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 December 2001
10 m awayRef 200101VK00481
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 27 December 2011
10 m awayRef 201101VK30370
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes A Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 84 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 20, 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 201201VK30072 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 2012.