Unclassified road crash in Elmbridge KT6 on 7 August 2020 at 07:24 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge at 07:24 on Friday 7 August 2020. The 65-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2020
- Friday, 07:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38182, longitude -0.31483, in the KT6 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Molesey. It is one of the crashes that make up the Long Ditton, Elmbridge, KT6 5RB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Elmbridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020450970807
- 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
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 24 May 1983.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 24 May 1983
1 m awayRef 1983010VD0464
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 9 November 1987
13 m awayRef 198701VD01028
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 17 November 1986
13 m awayRef 198601VD01121
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Kingston upon Thames, 27 October 1983
13 m awayRef 1983010VD1040
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on a C road in Elmbridge, 13 December 2016
14 m awayRef 2016450138478
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Elmbridge, 9 September 1987
15 m awayRef 198701VD00788
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 65, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- 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 2020450970807 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.