Serious A245 crash in Elmbridge on 26 September 2020 at 19:17 involving a Toyota Aygo
A Toyota Aygo and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on the A245 in Elmbridge at 19:17 on Saturday 26 September 2020. A 22-year-old female passenger in the Volkswagen Golf was seriously injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 26 Sep 2020
- Saturday, 19:17
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Aygo and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3148, longitude -0.37882, in the KT11 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxshott and Stoke D'Abernon, Elmbridge, KT11 3QF area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020450984635
- 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
- 245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 245
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 September 2021.
Serious
BMW X5 crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 1 September 2021
10 m awayRef 2021451082898
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 19 September 2019
11 m awayRef 2019450879124
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 22 November 1985
12 m awayRef 198501VD01165
Slight
Lambretta crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 25 August 2013
12 m awayRef 2013450008740
Slight
Renault Zoe crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 3 November 2023
12 m awayRef 2023451370347
Slight
Citroen C4 crash on the A245 in Elmbridge, 28 November 2011
13 m awayRef 201145EL66124
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Aygo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2020450984635 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.