Serious unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT12 on 8 December 2017 at 13:15 involving a Smart Fortwo
A Smart Fortwo hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 13:15 on Friday 8 December 2017. An 81-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 20 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Dec 2017
- Friday, 13:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Smart Fortwo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35146, longitude -0.43061, in the KT12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Byfleet, New Haw and West Byfleet. It is one of the crashes that make up the Weybridge St George's Hill, Elmbridge, KT12 4BT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450248772
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 20 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very 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, 16 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 June 2002.
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 14 June 2002
16 m awayRef 200245RN23857
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 15 October 2008
101 m awayRef 200845EL30145
Slight
Bus crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 16 February 1999
115 m awayRef 199945NA00062
Slight
Kia Pride crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 16 January 2002
115 m awayRef 200245SR17499
Serious
Honda Jazz crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 11 June 2020
120 m awayRef 2020450956740
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 19 May 1979
120 m awayRef 197945AW00090
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Smart Fortwo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 81 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 81, hit by vehicle 1 (Smart Fortwo)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2017450248772 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.