Serious A3 crash in Elmbridge on 29 March 2004 at 10:25 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa crashed on the A3 in Elmbridge at 10:25 on Monday 29 March 2004. A 17-year-old male passenger and a female passenger were seriously injured and the 18-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Mar 2004
- Monday, 10:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Corsa
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33261, longitude -0.43362, in the KT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Byfleet, New Haw and West Byfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cobham and Downside, Elmbridge, KT11 1DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200445EL51059
- 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
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 October 2005.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 17 October 2005
10 m awayRef 200545EL77538
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 25 February 1997
14 m awayRef 199745NA00093
Slight
Honda Accord crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 8 June 1991
20 m awayRef 199145NA05189
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 19 June 2003
22 m awayRef 200345RN38913
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 15 May 2000
22 m awayRef 200045NS00230
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 17 May 2004
22 m awayRef 200445EL53609
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Corsa)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200445EL51059 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 2004.