M25 crash in Elmbridge on 6 March 2008 at 09:21 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
A Vauxhall Zafira, a Volkswagen Passat and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the M25 in Elmbridge at 09:21 on Thursday 6 March 2008. The 32-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus 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
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Mar 2008
- Thursday, 09:21
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Zafira and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31275, longitude -0.36227, in the KT11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Elmbridge, KT11 3QA area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845MO20521
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2002.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the M25 in Elmbridge, 30 September 2002
20 m awayRef 200245RW28078
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the M25 in Elmbridge, 31 December 2025
29 m awayRef 2025451689560
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M25 in Elmbridge, 2 December 2013
35 m awayRef 2013450011109
Serious
Vehicle crash on the M25 in Elmbridge, 1 August 2006
36 m awayRef 200645MO89693
Serious
Car crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 4 October 1988
40 m awayRef 198845ED00386
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Elmbridge, 1 January 2011
40 m awayRef 201145MO57280
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Ford Focus)
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 200845MO20521 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.