A3 crash in Wandsworth on 31 December 2012 at 16:10 involving an Audi A3
An Audi A3 hit a pedestrian on the A3 in Wandsworth at 16:10 on Monday 31 December 2012. A 26-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2012
- Monday, 16:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi A3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45704, longitude -0.19431, in the SW18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth. It is one of the crashes that make up the Wandsworth Town, Wandsworth, SW18 1SR area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201201WW51076
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- 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
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 218
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian phase at traffic signal
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 7 January 2003.
Slight
Rover 45 crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 7 January 2003
At the same spotRef 200301WW00011
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 30 April 1988
At the same spotRef 198801WW00178
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 25 December 1991
At the same spotRef 199101WW00480
Slight
Lorry crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 25 April 1987
At the same spotRef 198701WW00174
Fatal
Dennis crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 2 July 1990
At the same spotRef 199001WW00286
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3 in Wandsworth, 22 December 2002
At the same spotRef 200201WW01388
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi A3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- 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
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 26, hit by vehicle 1 (Audi A3)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing on pedestrian crossing facility
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 201201WW51076 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 2012.