A307 crash in Elmbridge on 12 March 2008 at 17:30 involving a Volkswagen Polo
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Mar 2008
- Wednesday, 17:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Volvo XC70
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37804, longitude -0.34974, in the KT10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Hinchley Wood and Weston Green, Elmbridge, KT10 9AN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845EL19931
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 307
- Road type
- Roundabout
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 25 May 1995.
Fatal
Mercedes crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 25 May 1995
10 m awayRef 199501VK00385
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 6 January 2024
14 m awayRef 2024451395463
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 22 October 1985
20 m awayRef 198501VD01029
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 6 September 2004
22 m awayRef 200445EL57927
Slight
Peugeot 207 crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 6 November 2018
27 m awayRef 2018450801202
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 27 August 1991
32 m awayRef 199101VK00863
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo XC70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Entering roundabout
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- 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 200845EL19931 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 2008.