Unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT10 on 8 September 2017 at 04:40 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van crashed on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 04:40 on Friday 8 September 2017. The 40-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Sep 2017
- Friday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3636, longitude -0.32643, in the KT10 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chessington South & Malden Rushett, Kingston upon Thames, KT9 2RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450223680
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 1996.
Slight
Volvo 245 crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 2 October 1996
5 m awayRef 199601VK00781
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 15 October 1984
36 m awayRef 198401VD01027
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 1 August 1982
47 m awayRef 1982010VD0771
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 18 January 2022
57 m awayRef 2022451133720
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 24 June 1989
58 m awayRef 198901VK00597
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 21 February 1982
58 m awayRef 1982010VD0175
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Trafic)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most 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 2017450223680 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.