Serious A3050 crash in Elmbridge on 20 February 2012 at 14:52 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge at 14:52 on Monday 20 February 2012. The 18-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was seriously injured and the 28-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus and a 6-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Feb 2012
- Monday, 14:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39588, longitude -0.4043, in the KT12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton North, Elmbridge, KT12 2EB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201245EL68356
- 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
- 3050
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 June 2009.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 28 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200945EL41142
Serious
Kawasaki ZX600 crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 4 October 2006
At the same spotRef 200645EL92576
Slight
MG MGF crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 7 October 2004
At the same spotRef 200445EL60040
Slight
Mini Countryman crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 6 October 2018
6 m awayRef 2018450333299
Slight
Volkswagen Beetle crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 4 October 2015
6 m awayRef 2015450030471
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A3050 in Elmbridge, 24 December 2016
7 m awayRef 2016450143568
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 6, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 201245EL68356 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.