A240 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 30 January 2014 at 05:45 involving a Fiat Punto
A bicycle and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames at 05:45 on Thursday 30 January 2014. The 56-year-old male 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
- 30 Jan 2014
- Thursday, 05:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38844, longitude -0.29762, 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 Surbiton Hill, Kingston upon Thames, KT6 6QZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Kingston upon Thames
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201401VK30047
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 240
- 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
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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
- 11%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 89%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 15 May 1998.
Serious
Ford Cortina crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 15 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199801VK00367
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 31 August 1998
At the same spotRef 199801VK00661
Slight
Seat Marbella crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 9 September 2004
At the same spotRef 200401TE00658
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 14 May 2012
10 m awayRef 201201VK30123
Slight
Car crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 25 February 1988
10 m awayRef 198801VD00201
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A240 in Kingston upon Thames, 13 October 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010064415
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Male
- Driver age
- 56 years
Vehicle 2: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- 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
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 56, on vehicle 1 (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 201401VK30047 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 2014.