Serious unclassified road crash in Mole Valley RH4 on 16 July 2018 at 15:45 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A bicycle and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley at 15:45 on Monday 16 July 2018. The 45-year-old male cyclist was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Jul 2018
- Monday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Bicycle and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20976, longitude -0.34413, in the RH4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450311503
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- 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
- 60 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 31 March 1995.
Fatal
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 31 March 1995
10 m awayRef 199545ED00099
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 20 March 2006
44 m awayRef 200645MO82914
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 4 July 2025
46 m awayRef 2025451611544
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 13 February 1989
89 m awayRef 198945ED00043
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 2 March 1982
157 m awayRef 198245GK00025
Serious
Skoda Octavia crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 21 April 2019
165 m awayRef 2019450833080
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SeriousMale, aged 45, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)
- 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 2018450311503 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2018.