A205 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 8 October 2014 at 19:00 involving a Volkswagen Transporter van
A Volkswagen Transporter van and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames at 19:00 on Wednesday 8 October 2014. The 31-year-old female cyclist 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
- 8 Oct 2014
- Wednesday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Transporter and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46516, longitude -0.25532, in the SW14 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Mortlake & Barnes Common, Richmond upon Thames, SW14 8DD 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
- 201401TW60446
- 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
- 205
- 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
- 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
- 8%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 92%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2008.
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 July 2008
10 m awayRef 200801TW60225
Serious
Fiat Uno crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 February 1992
10 m awayRef 199201TW00108
Slight
Leyland DAF 400 crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 6 March 1997
10 m awayRef 199701TW00219
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 10 May 1998
10 m awayRef 199801TW00280
Slight
Van crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 27 May 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TR00096
Slight
Ford Galaxy crash on the A205 in Richmond upon Thames, 2 April 2006
10 m awayRef 200601TW60105
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 31, 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 201401TW60446 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 2014.