Serious unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT12 on 19 May 2016 at 21:33 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 21:33 on Thursday 19 May 2016. The 21-year-old male driver, a 17-year-old male passenger and a 17-year-old female passenger were seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 May 2016
- Thursday, 21:33
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38325, longitude -0.43754, in the KT12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Walton Central, Elmbridge, KT13 9JH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450075574
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 13 August 2016.
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
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
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
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 2016450075574 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 2016.