A307 crash in Elmbridge on 23 May 1982 at 23:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A307 in Elmbridge at 23:00 on Sunday 23 May 1982. The 19-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and a 19-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 May 1982
- Sunday, 23:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3424, longitude -0.39569, in the KT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cobham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010VD0496
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 307
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 17 November 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 17 November 2006
At the same spotRef 200645EL95048
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 5 March 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010VD0211
Serious
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 12 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901VK00453
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 14 July 1982
At the same spotRef 1982010VD0704
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 29 August 2016
2 m awayRef 2016450100784
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 25 August 2025
5 m awayRef 2025451633138
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1982010VD0496 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Elmbridge road accident statistics for 1982.