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A24 crash in Mole Valley on 27 May 1987 at 04:15 involving a car

A car crashed on the A24 in Mole Valley at 04:15 on Wednesday 27 May 1987. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
27 May 1987
Wednesday, 04:15
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30022, longitude -0.31195, in the KT22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashtead.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198745ED00204
Council area
Mole Valley
Police force
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
24
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Dark, lighting unknown
Road surface
Wet or damp
Carriageway hazards
Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 August 1980.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    29 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Slight

    Male, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 198745ED00204 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 1987.