Three people were taken to hospital after a crash on Kew Bridge on Sunday afternoon, in an incident that brought a large emergency response to one of west London’s busiest river crossings and forced the closure of the A205.
The collision happened on Sunday 20 September on Kew Bridge, which carries the A205 South Circular over the River Thames between Kew and Brentford. The bridge, in the TW9 postcode area, links the Kew side of the river with Brentford and is used by thousands of drivers, bus passengers, cyclists and pedestrians every day, so any closure quickly affects traffic on both banks.
Paramedics treated four people at the scene. Three of them were taken to hospital for further care, while a fourth person, a woman, was assessed and discharged at the scene. The conditions of the three people taken to hospital were not known at the time of the official update, and no further detail about their injuries was given in the ambulance statement.
The response
The London Ambulance Service said it was called on Sunday 20 September to reports of an incident on Kew Bridge, TW9. It sent a number of resources to the scene, including ambulance crews, a clinical team manager, an incident response officer and an advanced paramedic practitioner, who worked alongside colleagues from the Metropolitan Police and the London Fire Brigade.
Photographs from the scene showed several ambulances, police cars and fire engines on the bridge while emergency work was under way, with a police cordon in place around the immediate area. The multi-agency attendance reflected the need to treat casualties, make the scene safe and manage traffic while the bridge was shut.
In its statement, the ambulance service confirmed the casualty figures and the resources sent, but did not describe how the crash happened or what vehicles were involved. Those details were not set out in the official information released after the incident.
What is confirmed and what is not
To avoid confusion as reports circulated on Sunday, it is worth setting out plainly what has been confirmed in official statements and what has not.
Confirmed: the crash took place on Kew Bridge on Sunday 20 September; four people were treated at the scene; three people were taken to hospital; a woman was discharged at the scene; ambulance, police and fire crews attended; and the A205 was closed in both directions before later reopening. The patients’ conditions were not yet known when the ambulance update was given.
Not confirmed: the official statements available do not specify how many vehicles were involved or how the collision happened, and they do not update the patients’ conditions beyond the figures above. Early witness reports circulating after the crash were not confirmed by police or ambulance statements and are not reported here as fact.
The road now
The A205 was closed in both directions on Kew Bridge following the crash, causing delays in the surrounding area while emergency services worked at the scene. The road was later reopened on Sunday once that work allowed traffic to use the bridge again. No further closure linked to this incident is recorded in the official updates, and drivers are advised to check live travel information before travelling, as conditions on the South Circular can change quickly.
As for what happens next, the position recorded after the incident is that the Metropolitan Police had been contacted for comment and had not released further details about the circumstances of the crash. No outcome, arrest or charge is confirmed in the official information available for this report, and it would be wrong to present one without a police update.
London Streets will update this report if the police or ambulance service publish further confirmed information about the patients or the investigation.
