B373 crash in Elmbridge on 31 October 1997 at 20:07 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the B373 in Elmbridge at 20:07 on Friday 31 October 1997. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Oct 1997
- Friday, 20:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36862, longitude -0.45267, in the KT13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Weybridge.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NA00478
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 373
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 1 June 2009.
Slight
Jaguar XK Series crash on the B373 in Elmbridge, 1 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200945EL40326
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B373 in Elmbridge, 17 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199645NA00275
Serious
Car crash on the B373 in Elmbridge, 17 October 1985
10 m awayRef 198545NA00356
Serious
Volkswagen Touareg crash on the B373 in Elmbridge, 3 July 2020
15 m awayRef 2020450962001
Serious
Rover Metro crash on the B373 in Runnymede, 5 December 1994
22 m awayRef 199445NA00513
Slight
Car crash on the B373 in Elmbridge, 30 October 1985
22 m awayRef 198545NA00375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (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 199745NA00478 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.