A245 crash in Mole Valley on 4 February 1996 at 00:45 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
A Vauxhall Cavalier crashed on the A245 in Mole Valley at 00:45 on Sunday 4 February 1996. The 20-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Feb 1996
- Sunday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30921, longitude -0.34993, in the KT22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199645ED00040
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 November 2019.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 11 November 2019
4 m awayRef 2019450897512
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 22 June 2001
10 m awayRef 200145EM07776
Slight
Volkswagen Jetta crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 27 November 1997
10 m awayRef 199745ED00362
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 26 August 2002
10 m awayRef 200245RE26339
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 25 February 2019
18 m awayRef 2019450818612
Serious
Yamaha YZF crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 14 October 2025
25 m awayRef 2025451655433
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 199645ED00040 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 1996.