Serious B311 crash in Surrey Heath on 21 October 2017 at 08:30 involving a Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle
A Lexmoto Assault 125 motorcycle crashed on the B311 in Surrey Heath at 08:30 on Saturday 21 October 2017. The 45-year-old male rider was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 2017
- Saturday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lexmoto Assault 125
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34516, longitude -0.66793, in the GU18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Lightwater. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwater, Surrey Heath, GU18 5YX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450234789
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 311
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 2021.
Slight
Tesla Model 3 crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 30 November 2021
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Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 19 November 2017
9 m awayRef 2017450243575
Slight
Chrysler Neon crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 7 June 2008
11 m awayRef 200845SU23445
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 7 April 2012
12 m awayRef 201245SU69683
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 29 October 2021
20 m awayRef 2021451103989
Slight
Mazda 2 crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 13 May 2013
21 m awayRef 2013450006138
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lexmoto Assault 125
Motorcycle 125cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 2: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 45, motorcyclist (125cc and under), on vehicle 1 (Lexmoto Assault 125)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2017450234789 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 2017.