Unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT8 on 17 November 2017 at 17:50 involving a lorry
A lorry and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 17:50 on Friday 17 November 2017. The 36-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Nov 2017
- Friday, 17:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3951, longitude -0.38398, in the KT8 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Molesey West, Elmbridge, KT8 2QU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450243717
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2015.
Slight
Seat Altea crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 28 November 2015
1 m awayRef 2015450034146
Serious
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 15 April 2018
2 m awayRef 2018450299157
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 5 January 2015
2 m awayRef 2015450020892
Slight
Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 3 June 2019
2 m awayRef 2019450844716
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 8 June 2016
2 m awayRef 2016450075219
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 14 August 2016
2 m awayRef 2016450095882
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 125cc to 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 689 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 36, motorcyclist (125cc to 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 2017450243717 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.