A244 crash in Elmbridge on 8 July 2003 at 19:35 involving a Honda VFR800F motorcycle
A Honda VFR800F motorcycle, a Land Rover Freelander and a Peugeot Expert van were involved in a crash on the A244 in Elmbridge at 19:35 on Tuesday 8 July 2003. The 42-year-old male rider of the Honda VFR800F motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Jul 2003
- Tuesday, 19:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Honda VFR800F and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33584, longitude -0.36059, in the KT22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cobham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Elmbridge, KT22 0ST area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RN39892
- 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
- 244
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- 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 27 September 2005.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 27 September 2005
At the same spotRef 200545EL73987
Slight
Audi TT crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 23 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200645EL93010
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 18 August 2025
4 m awayRef 2025451630402
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 22 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RN44096
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 20 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199701VK00703
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 19 October 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RN44153
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Honda VFR800F
Motorcycle over 125cc
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Freelander
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,795 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 3: Peugeot Expert
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 42, motorcyclist (over 125cc), on vehicle 1 (Honda VFR800F)
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 200345RN39892 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 2003.