C road crash in Elmbridge KT8 on 28 December 2007 at 11:30 involving a Ford Escort van
A Ford Escort van and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on a C road in Elmbridge at 11:30 on Friday 28 December 2007. The 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Escort van and the 86-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Dec 2007
- Friday, 11:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39759, longitude -0.38454, in the KT8 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Molesey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Molesey West, Elmbridge, KT8 2QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200745EL16444
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 June 2006.
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 20 June 2006
20 m awayRef 200645EL87459
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 15 May 1988
22 m awayRef 198801VD00476
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 15 March 1988
41 m awayRef 198801VD00266
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 11 April 2000
41 m awayRef 200045SP00080
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 19 December 2011
51 m awayRef 201145EL66800
Serious
Suzuki crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 19 April 2001
61 m awayRef 200145NS04906
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,753 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 86 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 86, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200745EL16444 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 2007.