Serious A307 crash in Elmbridge on 11 August 1982 at 17:15 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A307 in Elmbridge at 17:15 on Wednesday 11 August 1982. The 20-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured and a 20-year-old male passenger on the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 11 Aug 1982
- Wednesday, 17:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37161, longitude -0.36205, in the KT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Esher.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010VD0806
- 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
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2011.
Slight
Hyundai Sonata crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 28 November 2011
At the same spotRef 201145EL66194
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 23 July 2009
At the same spotRef 200945EL41650
Slight
Bus crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 27 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199301VK00175
Slight
Alfa Romeo Giulietta crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 7 May 1993
10 m awayRef 199301VK00334
Serious
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 20 February 1985
10 m awayRef 198501VD00144
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 24 April 1991
10 m awayRef 199101VK00378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 1982010VD0806 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.