A318 crash in Runnymede on 4 October 2008 at 13:00 involving a Toyota
A Toyota and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A318 in Runnymede at 13:00 on Saturday 4 October 2008. The 47-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 13:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37978, longitude -0.49222, in the KT15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chertsey Riverside, Runnymede, KT16 8HD area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845RU29313
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 318
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 April 2016.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 3 April 2016
7 m awayRef 2016450057661
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 18 June 2007
10 m awayRef 200745RU05763
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 16 May 2011
10 m awayRef 201145RU61131
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 22 November 2008
10 m awayRef 200845RU31729
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 20 May 2024
11 m awayRef 2024451445499
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A318 in Runnymede, 7 June 2007
14 m awayRef 200745RU05572
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,970 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,986 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Passat)
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 200845RU29313 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 2008.