A3 crash in Elmbridge on 15 January 2014 at 18:07 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A3 in Elmbridge at 18:07 on Wednesday 15 January 2014. The 42-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 44-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2014
- Wednesday, 18:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33653, longitude -0.42304, in the KT11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cobham and Downside, Elmbridge, KT11 1DN area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014450012540
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 April 2014.
Slight
Mitsubishi Colt crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 17 April 2014
11 m awayRef 2014450014924
Slight
Minibus crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 3 December 1981
17 m awayRef 198145AW00261
Fatal
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 19 July 1989
17 m awayRef 198945NA05334
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 23 August 1989
17 m awayRef 198945NA05395
Slight
Mercedes E Class crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 6 June 2020
18 m awayRef 2020450955736
Slight
Seat Ibiza crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 12 April 2013
21 m awayRef 2013450005149
Vehicles involved (2)
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
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2014450012540 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 2014.