years of the 21st century. The single track now disappears into the houses built on the brickyards on Somerville Road. Many people have signed petitions for Oxshott to have a proper bus route. The current connections in the village are: the 408 every two hours, connecting to Leatherhead, Ashtead, and Epsom in one direction, and to Cobham in the other; the 513 to/from Kingston upon Thames three times a day; and the Chatterbus to/from Cobham five times a day. 2010 Oxshott train accident On Friday 5 November 2010, at 15:40, there was an accident where the Guildford via Cobham railway line passes in a deep cutting under the Esher to Leatherhead road. A 26-tonne concrete mixer lorry crashed through the road bridge's parapet and fell about onto the railway line, colliding with a train travelling from Guildford to . Of the 40 people on board the train, four were injured. The lorry driver of the lorry was badly injured, and also apparently had a heart attack and had to be carefully taken out of the cab by the medical services. Rail and road had been cleared and re-opened by early the following Monday. Amenities Oxshott has one, Anglican, church, St. Andrew's. Oxshott has its own primary school, the Royal Kent, named because its predecessor was founded by the Duchess of Kent, Queen Victoria's mother, in 1820. The original building stood on the site of the petrol station. Oxshott has an independent preparatory school, Danes Hill School, and its pre-prep school, Bevendean. A senior independent school, Reed's School, just beyond its northern boundary, caters for boys aged 11 to 18 and girls aged 16 to 18. There is also a very active sports club, which has developed from the village cricket club founded in 1896. Oxshott also has two public houses: The Victoria and The Bear. The village has a large number of United States nationals and expatriates with their social organisations, due in part to the nearby ACS Cobham International school. The village features in some versions, such as the Summer Olympics version, of the currently annual London-Surrey cycle classic. In film and fiction Oxshott is featured in the popular Shopaholic novels by British author Sophie Kinsella, as the hometown of the series' narrator, Becky Bloomwood. A greater part of the historic novel "Unter der Asche" (Beneath the ashes) by German author Tom Finnek is set in Oxshott and nearby