Serious A3 crash in Elmbridge on 22 November 2012 at 16:32 involving a Vauxhall Astra van
A car, a Vauxhall Astra van and a Vauxhall Astra were involved in a crash on the A3 in Elmbridge at 16:32 on Thursday 22 November 2012. The 30-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Astra was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 22 Nov 2012
- Thursday, 16:32
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Astra and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34697, longitude -0.37185, in the KT22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Elmbridge, KT10 9HL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012450000727
- 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
- 3
- 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 9 December 1989
11 m awayRef 198901VK01209
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 9 March 2010
21 m awayRef 201045EL49791
Serious
Leyland DAF Fas 75 crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 16 October 1996
22 m awayRef 199601VK00831
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 19 January 2008
22 m awayRef 200845EL18381
Fatal
Audi A4 crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 19 January 2008
22 m awayRef 200845EL16986
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 12 December 2008
24 m awayRef 200845EL33998
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Astra
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- 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
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,700 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Vauxhall Astra)
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
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 2012450000727 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 2012.