A243 crash in Kingston upon Thames on 9 June 2019 at 12:37 involving a Volkswagen Tiguan
A Volkswagen Tiguan and a Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames at 12:37 on Sunday 9 June 2019. The 31-year-old male rider of the Yamaha XT 600 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Jun 2019
- Sunday, 12:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Tiguan and Yamaha XT 600
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34098, longitude -0.31826, 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 2NS 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
- 2019010186166
- 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
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 243
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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 December 1991.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 19 December 1991
6 m awayRef 199101VK01265
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 19 October 1986
14 m awayRef 198601VD01029
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 26 January 1996
14 m awayRef 199601VK00072
Serious
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 4 March 1987
14 m awayRef 198701VD00166
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 12 November 2014
18 m awayRef 201401VK30399
Slight
Car crash on the A243 in Kingston upon Thames, 27 May 1989
18 m awayRef 198901VK00512
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Tiguan
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Yamaha XT 600
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 659 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 31, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Yamaha XT 600)
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 2019010186166 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.