Serious A281 crash in Waverley on 14 December 2016 at 08:00 involving a Mercedes CLK Class
A Mercedes CLK Class and a Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A281 in Waverley at 08:00 on Wednesday 14 December 2016. The 23-year-old male rider of the Suzuki SV 650 motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes CLK Class and Suzuki SV 650
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.11966, longitude -0.51463, 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
- 2016450145300
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2014.
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A281 in Waverley, 6 December 2014
1 m awayRef 2014450020292
Serious
Iveco Daily crash on the A281 in Waverley, 12 September 2016
1 m awayRef 2016450105782
Serious
Suzuki DL 650 crash on the A281 in Waverley, 12 April 2022
3 m awayRef 2022451168760
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A281 in Waverley, 18 June 2017
5 m awayRef 2017450196139
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A281 in Waverley, 11 January 2009
7 m awayRef 200945WA33659
Slight
Car crash on the A281 in Waverley, 10 December 1985
7 m awayRef 198545WO00421
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes CLK Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,996 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Suzuki SV 650
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 645 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 23, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Suzuki SV 650)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2016450145300 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 2016.