A307 crash in Elmbridge on 22 March 2001 at 18:03 involving a Volkswagen Scirocco
A Volkswagen Scirocco and a Volvo 740 were involved in a crash on the A307 in Elmbridge at 18:03 on Thursday 22 March 2001. The 30-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Scirocco 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
- 22 Mar 2001
- Thursday, 18:03
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Scirocco and Volvo 740
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33403, longitude -0.41262, in the KT11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cobham and Downside, Elmbridge, KT11 2AG area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2001450004247
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 307
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 2004.
Slight
Mercedes crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 21 August 2004
10 m awayRef 200445EL57648
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 12 December 1995
10 m awayRef 199501VK00964
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 5 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025451574110
Slight
Rover 400 Series crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 20 June 2003
14 m awayRef 200345RN38709
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 20 January 2017
24 m awayRef 2017450151791
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 4 September 2021
28 m awayRef 2021451084272
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Scirocco
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,800 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo 740
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,316 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Scirocco)
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 2001450004247 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 2001.