A244 crash in Elmbridge on 21 January 2018 at 09:10 involving a Kia Rio
A Kia Rio and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A244 in Elmbridge at 09:10 on Sunday 21 January 2018. The 26-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 32-year-old female driver of the Kia Rio were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 2018
- Sunday, 09:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Rio and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3706, longitude -0.36645, in the KT10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Esher. It is one of the crashes that make up the Esher, Elmbridge, KT10 8NP area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450261670
- 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
- 244
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 5 July 2013.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 5 July 2013
At the same spotRef 2013450007094
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 4 April 2016
At the same spotRef 2016450063108
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 30 March 2015
At the same spotRef 2015450023160
Slight
Ford Grand C-Max crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 17 March 2018
At the same spotRef 2018450277037
Serious
Toyota Prius crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 22 November 2013
At the same spotRef 2013450010882
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A244 in Elmbridge, 12 July 2016
1 m awayRef 2016450086039
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Rio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,248 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Rio)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2018450261670 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 2018.