Two dead on A3 at Clayton Road, Long Ditton: man jumps from bridge and biker crashes into ambulance

11:31am Thursday 14th March 2013 in News By Laura Proto

The scene northbound on the A3 this morning. Picture from Chris Keegan The scene northbound on the A3 this morning. Picture from Chris Keegan

A double tragedy has occurred on the A3 this morning after two people died following a man's jump from a footbridge.

A man jumped from the bridge at Esher Common at about 9.30am, causing traffic chaos and the eventual closure of the northbound section of the road.

There was then another incident on the other side of the carriageway, when a motorcyclist crashed into a parked ambulance.

The Highways Agency said that both incidents on the A3 are police-led investigations.

The northbound and southbound carriages of the A3 were shut between the A244 and A309 are fully closed.

The northbound section was reopened at about 11.30am and the southbound section was re-opened at 3pm.

A spokesman for South East Coast Ambulance Service said: “We were called shortly after 9.30am to the A3 near Long Ditton to reports a man had jumped from a bridge.

"While we attended, there was a subsequent incident on the other side of the carriageway in which a motorcyclist had collided with a parked London Ambulance Service ambulance.

"Sadly despite all our efforts, two patients were pronounced dead at the scene.”

Two air ambulances were also scrambled to the scene, while Kingston police have sent several officers to assist.

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A Surrey Police spokesman said witnesses to these incidents should call their investigation unit on 01483 639922, quoting reference P13074412.

Readers who are in any type of distress can contact the Samaritans by calling 08457 90 90 90 or visiting samaritans.org.

 

 

 

Comments(10)

Njones141190 says...
1:48pm Thu 14 Mar 13

How can you say that when the ambulance was probably parked in the hard shoulder! Careless driving crashing into a vehicle parked on a hard shoulder if u ask me!

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Hove Ex-Pat says...
2:05pm Thu 14 Mar 13

Someone at London Ambulance has tweeted on their official twitter site that the motorcyclist was taken to hospital with shoulder & arm injuries. Someone has got something very wrong.
Very sad to all involved in any way with this dreadful matter.

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jayjay289 says...
2:51pm Thu 14 Mar 13

lets show some respect here, 2 people have lost their lives, the poor soul that jumped probably had no way out and the biker that hit the ambulance could of been avoided had he of been a bit more careful however... can we show some respect here please!!

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Angela M says...
3:32pm Thu 14 Mar 13

Hove Ex-Pat wrote:
Someone at London Ambulance has tweeted on their official twitter site that the motorcyclist was taken to hospital with shoulder & arm injuries. Someone has got something very wrong.
Very sad to all involved in any way with this dreadful matter.
There were two motorcycle accidents on the A3 today, only one was fatal.

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CocoPops50 says...
8:27pm Thu 14 Mar 13

If u look at the picture (in the top right) there's 2 buses.. I was in the front one and we were there for 2 hours!! My classmates were getting really annoyed about it and girls were peeing in the lorry next to us... Great day...

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Jessica1235 says...
8:56pm Thu 14 Mar 13

I saw this just before it happened. He was on the outside of the rails facing towards two people on the correct side of the bridge

He must have jumped about one minute after I passed. We had all slowed right down to almost a stop

So sad

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chambreski says...
10:12pm Thu 14 Mar 13

Actually the ambulance stopped in the fast lane of the road as the man who jumped was lying on the carriageway, and the ambulance was then hit by the lone motorcycle at speed. BotH were declared dead at the scene.......

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magic*dragon says...
9:54am Fri 15 Mar 13

Njones141190 wrote:
How can you say that when the ambulance was probably parked in the hard shoulder! Careless driving crashing into a vehicle parked on a hard shoulder if u ask me!
The ambulance was parked in the fast lane, I know because my daughter was involved in the accident, thankfully she only got a flat tyre caused by the debris of the motorcycle

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jayjay289 says...
12:17pm Mon 18 Mar 13

you know what!! all i see here is how people moaning about how they got stuck or where they had to pee... does and yet no one has offered their condolences to the 2 that lost their lives... where is the respect??

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jayjay289 says...
12:17pm Mon 18 Mar 13

you know what!! all i see here is how people moaning about how they got stuck or where they had to pee... does and yet no one has offered their condolences to the 2 that lost their lives... where is the respect??

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