Serious B3379 crash in Elmbridge on 29 July 2018 at 00:21 involving a Ford Mondeo
A Ford Mondeo and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge at 00:21 on Sunday 29 July 2018. The 40-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 29 Jul 2018
- Sunday, 00:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Mondeo and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39269, longitude -0.34913, in the KT8 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Molesey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Thames Ditton, Elmbridge, KT7 0YR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450313996
- Council area
- Elmbridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3379
- Road type
- Single 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 3 December 1998.
Serious
Mazda B2000 crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge, 3 December 1998
8 m awayRef 199801VK00944
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge, 27 February 2021
35 m awayRef 2021451024423
Slight
Car crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge, 6 February 1984
36 m awayRef 198401VD00125
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge, 25 September 2009
44 m awayRef 200945EL45032
Serious
Car crash on the B3379 in Elmbridge, 11 December 1997
54 m awayRef 199701VK01060
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 27 December 2019
55 m awayRef 2019450913616
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Mondeo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,399 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2018450313996 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.