M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 20 December 1990 at 17:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 17:45 on Thursday 20 December 1990. The 68-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Dec 1990
- Thursday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35543, longitude -0.6829, in the GU19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199045NC00574
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 June 2023.
Serious
Ford Transit Connect crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 25 June 2023
7 m awayRef 2023451322534
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 18 January 2015
8 m awayRef 2015450021199
Slight
Citroen Berlingo crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 30 May 2021
9 m awayRef 2021451050536
Serious
Lorry crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 14 December 1990
10 m awayRef 199045NC00565
Slight
Vauxhall Vectra crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 1 May 2001
10 m awayRef 200145MN05290
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 14 August 1997
14 m awayRef 199745NM00094
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 68 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 68, 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 199045NC00574 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1990.