Unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT11 on 12 January 2020 at 17:00 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Two Volkswagen Golfs were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 17:00 on Sunday 12 January 2020. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Jan 2020
- Sunday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32954, longitude -0.41093, in the KT11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Cobham. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cobham and Downside, Elmbridge, KT11 2AG area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020450918271
- 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
- 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 unlit
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2004.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 23 April 2004
7 m awayRef 200445EL52761
Slight
Renault 5 crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 5 September 1997
11 m awayRef 199701VK00722
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 3 November 1992
13 m awayRef 199201VK00890
Slight
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 4 June 2021
16 m awayRef 2021451053707
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 12 October 1984
17 m awayRef 198401VD01012
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 14 April 1990
18 m awayRef 199001VK00375
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,395 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 44, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- 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 2020450918271 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 2020.