A3 crash in Elmbridge on 1 September 2017 at 04:38 involving a Vauxhall Zafira
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Sep 2017
- Friday, 04:38
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35564, longitude -0.3231, in the KT9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chessington South & Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, KT9 2ND area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450218198
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 21 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 6 July 1997.
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 6 July 1997
21 m awayRef 199701VK00570
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 3 September 2007
34 m awayRef 200745EL10015
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Kingston upon Thames, 19 May 1983
35 m awayRef 1983010VD0448
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 18 December 2023
38 m awayRef 2023451389882
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 22 April 1996
47 m awayRef 199601VK00301
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the A3 in Elmbridge, 7 April 2002
49 m awayRef 200245SR20757
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Zafira)
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 2017450218198 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 2017.