A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 23 May 2019 at 12:05 involving a Piaggio Liberty motorcycle
A Piaggio Liberty motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 12:05 on Thursday 23 May 2019. The 25-year-old female rider of the Piaggio Liberty motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 2019
- Thursday, 12:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Piaggio Liberty and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34956, longitude -0.31342, in the KT9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kingston upon Thames. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chessington South & Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, KT9 2ND 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
- 2019010183057
- 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
- 243
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 5 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 June 1992.
Serious
Yamaha crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 9 June 1992
5 m awayRef 199201VK00418
Slight
Hyundai i10 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 31 March 2017
5 m awayRef 2017010029321
Slight
Yamaha NXC 125 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 25 September 2010
11 m awayRef 201001VK30320
Slight
Land Rover Range Rover crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 5 July 2009
11 m awayRef 200901VK30207
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 20 December 2007
11 m awayRef 200701VK30314
Serious
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 2 July 1989
11 m awayRef 198901VK00614
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Piaggio Liberty
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 25 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 25, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Piaggio Liberty)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2019010183057 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.