Unclassified road crash in Kingston upon Thames KT1 on 8 January 2019 at 17:12 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach crashed on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames at 17:12 on Tuesday 8 January 2019. A 69-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 20 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jan 2019
- Tuesday, 17:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4081, longitude -0.30376, in the KT1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Kingston Town, Kingston upon Thames, KT2 6QF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019010156347
- Council area
- Kingston upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- A
- Second road number
- 307
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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 December 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Kingston upon Thames, 4 December 1986
2 m awayRef 198601VD01206
Serious
Car crash on the A307 in Kingston upon Thames, 12 May 2014
20 m awayRef 201401VK30452
Serious
Volvo crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 6 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199901VK00258
Slight
Taxi crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 8 October 1999
20 m awayRef 199901VK00663
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 20 June 2003
20 m awayRef 200301VK00185
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Kingston upon Thames, 10 April 2025
20 m awayRef 2025010568774
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 57 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 69, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Bus or coach passenger
- Standing passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least 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 2019010156347 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 2019.