A245 crash in Woking on 15 November 2016 at 16:35 involving a Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle
A Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A245 in Woking at 16:35 on Tuesday 15 November 2016. The 19-year-old male rider of the Yamaha WR 125 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Nov 2016
- Tuesday, 16:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- Yamaha WR 125 and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33734, longitude -0.53336, in the GU21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Byfleet, New Haw and West Byfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canalside, Woking, GU21 5SN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Woking
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450127936
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 February 2020.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A245 in Woking, 24 February 2020
1 m awayRef 2020450934327
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A245 in Woking, 22 April 2000
4 m awayRef 200045NW00075
Serious
Car crash on the A245 in Woking, 9 February 1980
9 m awayRef 198045CD00048
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A245 in Woking, 2 June 1983
26 m awayRef 198345CD00174
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A245 in Woking, 2 November 1984
35 m awayRef 198445CD00415
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A245 in Woking, 30 July 2022
40 m awayRef 2022451204176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Yamaha WR 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,000 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Yamaha WR 125)
- 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 2016450127936 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 2016.