Serious A2 crash in Elmbridge on 6 August 2020 at 16:50 involving a Hyundai i30
A Hyundai i30 and a Peugeot Expert goods vehicle were involved in a crash on the A2 in Elmbridge at 16:50 on Thursday 6 August 2020. A 59-year-old female passenger in the Hyundai i30 was seriously injured and the 68-year-old male driver of the Hyundai i30 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 6 Aug 2020
- Thursday, 16:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Hyundai i30 and Peugeot Expert
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34054, longitude -0.45941, in the KT11 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, KT13 0RU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020450970440
- 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
- 2
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Moderately 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 December 2001.
Slight
Proton Proton crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 31 December 2001
9 m awayRef 200145MN17100
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 28 November 1982
9 m awayRef 198245AW00235
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 10 September 1993
13 m awayRef 199345NA00402
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 25 October 1979
35 m awayRef 197945AW00201
Serious
Car crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 17 November 1980
36 m awayRef 198045AW00201
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 15 December 1998
36 m awayRef 199845NA00543
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Hyundai i30
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 68 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,591 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Peugeot Expert
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 68, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Hyundai i30)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2020450970440 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.