Unclassified road crash in Richmond upon Thames SW14 on 26 November 2018 at 09:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mercedes Sprinter van were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames at 09:00 on Monday 26 November 2018. The 27-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet slip road with a 20 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Nov 2018
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mercedes Sprinter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46321, longitude -0.27209, 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 East Sheen, Richmond upon Thames, SW14 7NQ 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
- 2018010148234
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- No
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 20 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 3 February 1997.
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Saab 9000 crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 3 February 1997
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Volkswagen Jetta crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 7 September 1998
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Audi Q3 crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 10 July 2015
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Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mercedes Sprinter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2018010148234 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 2018.