A3 crash in Elmbridge on 10 November 1997 at 18:10 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Ford Sierra were involved in a crash on the A3 in Elmbridge at 18:10 on Monday 10 November 1997. The 30-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Nov 1997
- Monday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Ford Sierra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37516, longitude -0.31437, in the KT9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199701VK00919
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 August 1996.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 4 August 1996
10 m awayRef 199601VK00596
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 21 November 1996
10 m awayRef 199601VK00974
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 7 June 1996
20 m awayRef 199601VK00439
Slight
Triumph Street Triple crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 6 October 2016
21 m awayRef 2016450120423
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 29 October 1987
22 m awayRef 198701VD00979
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 16 January 2023
24 m awayRef 2023451263631
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Sierra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 199701VK00919 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 1997.