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A317 crash in Elmbridge on 22 March 1998 at 13:30 involving a Rover Metro

A Rover Metro crashed on the A317 in Elmbridge at 13:30 on Sunday 22 March 1998. The 28-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.

Severity
Slight
Date
22 Mar 1998
Sunday, 13:30
Vehicles
1
Rover Metro
Casualties
2
2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36767, longitude -0.429, in the KT12 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199845NA00112
Council area
Elmbridge
Police force
Surrey
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
317
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph
Urban or rural
Rural
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
Using private drive or entrance
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled

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 2 July 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Rover Metro

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Bollard or refuge
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    1,396 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    7 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)

    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 199845NA00112 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 1998.