Serious A281 crash in Waverley on 24 April 2013 at 18:07 involving a Vauxhall Tigra
A Vauxhall Tigra and a Triumph Street Triple motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A281 in Waverley at 18:07 on Wednesday 24 April 2013. The 47-year-old male rider of the Triumph Street Triple motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Apr 2013
- Wednesday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Tigra and Triumph Street Triple
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11353, longitude -0.51154, in the GU6 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Alfold, Dunsfold & Hascombe, Waverley, GU6 8FF area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waverley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013450005567
- Council area
- Waverley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 281
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 September 2005.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A281 in Waverley, 30 September 2005
8 m awayRef 200545WA73970
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A281 in Waverley, 1 December 2010
8 m awayRef 201045WA56350
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A281 in Waverley, 4 November 2025
17 m awayRef 2025451663521
Serious
Car crash on the A281 in Waverley, 28 March 1981
25 m awayRef 198145FG00090
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A281 in Waverley, 18 May 1996
26 m awayRef 199645WF00210
Slight
Saab 9000 crash on the A281 in Waverley, 29 June 1999
35 m awayRef 199945WF00270
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Tigra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Triumph Street Triple
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 675 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 47, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Triumph Street Triple)
- 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 2013450005567 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waverley road accident statistics for 2013.