Serious M25 crash in Mole Valley on 22 April 2011 at 09:49 involving a car
Three cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the M25 in Mole Valley at 09:49 on Friday 22 April 2011. A 61-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle was seriously injured and the 60-year-old male rider of the motorcycle 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
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Apr 2011
- Friday, 09:49
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29141, longitude -0.28515, in the KT18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockham, Betchworth, Buckland, Box Hill & Headley, Mole Valley, KT18 6EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145MO60355
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 September 2025.
Slight
MAN crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 23 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025451654176
Slight
Daewoo Leganza crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 10 November 1999
10 m awayRef 199945WM00079
Slight
Chrysler crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 3 September 2006
10 m awayRef 200645MO90785
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 7 November 2004
10 m awayRef 200445MO60420
Slight
HGV crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 12 October 2006
10 m awayRef 200645MO93020
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 22 May 1999
20 m awayRef 199945WM00028
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,308 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 4: Motorcycle
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 60 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 60, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 4 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 61, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 4 (Motorcycle)
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 201145MO60355 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2011.