A307 crash in Elmbridge on 27 November 2008 at 14:19 involving a BMW 3 Series
Four vehicles, including a BMW 3 Series and a Volvo V70, were involved in a crash on the A307 in Elmbridge at 14:19 on Thursday 27 November 2008. The 53-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series, the 41-year-old female driver of the Volvo V70 and the 55-year-old male driver of the Alfa Romeo 156 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Nov 2008
- Thursday, 14:19
- Vehicles
- 4
- BMW 3 Series and 3 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36697, longitude -0.36852, in the KT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Esher. It is one of the crashes that make up the Esher, Elmbridge, KT10 8NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845EL33319
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 August 2025.
Slight
BMW i3 crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 28 August 2025
3 m awayRef 2025451634577
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 17 February 1987
10 m awayRef 198701VD00111
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 30 March 1987
14 m awayRef 198701VD00261
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 24 June 2005
22 m awayRef 200545EL70701
Slight
Skoda Kodiaq crash on the A307 in Elmbridge, 6 July 2023
25 m awayRef 2023451326705
Serious
Vauxhall Chevette crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 11 May 1991
28 m awayRef 199101VK00439
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 53 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo V70
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,435 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 3: Alfa Romeo 156
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Other vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo V70)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Alfa Romeo 156)
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 200845EL33319 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.