A307 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 14 December 2017 at 23:50 involving a Seat Altea
A Seat Altea and an Audi TTS were involved in a crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames at 23:50 on Thursday 14 December 2017. The 35-year-old male driver of the Seat Altea was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2017
- Thursday, 23:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Seat Altea and Audi TTS
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42466, longitude -0.30447, in the KT2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tudor, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 5DW 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
- 2017010078054
- 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
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2003.
Slight
Nissan Prairie crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 25 November 2003
At the same spotRef 200301VK00367
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 22 October 1991
10 m awayRef 199101VK01029
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 15 February 1998
10 m awayRef 199801VK00116
Serious
Audi Q5 crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 24 April 2023
11 m awayRef 2023010439518
Serious
Bus crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 11 March 1998
41 m awayRef 199801VK00218
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 14 October 2012
73 m awayRef 201201VK30287
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Seat Altea
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Audi TTS
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Altea)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
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 2017010078054 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 2017.