A22 crash in Tandridge on 23 September 1987 at 11:19 involving a van
A van and a car were involved in a crash on the A22 in Tandridge at 11:19 on Wednesday 23 September 1987. The 21-year-old male driver of the van and a 62-year-old female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Sep 1987
- Wednesday, 11:19
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21951, longitude -0.04898, in the RH9 postcode district and within the built-up area of South Godstone.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198745EC00291
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 June 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 17 June 2014
5 m awayRef 2014450016172
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 21 September 2021
10 m awayRef 2021451090767
Serious
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 14 December 1985
10 m awayRef 198545EC00312
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 25 April 1989
10 m awayRef 198945EC00138
Slight
Nissan crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 16 December 1996
20 m awayRef 199645EC00440
Slight
Kia EV6 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 14 March 2025
20 m awayRef 2025451565278
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Van)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 62, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198745EC00291 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 1987.