A322 crash in Surrey Heath on 4 June 1996 at 07:45 involving a Ford Escort
Two cars, a Ford Escort and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath at 07:45 on Tuesday 4 June 1996. The 23-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Jun 1996
- Tuesday, 07:45
- Vehicles
- 4
- Ford Escort and 3 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37096, longitude -0.68849, 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
- 199645NC00148
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 322
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 March 1990.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 15 March 1990
At the same spotRef 199045NC00117
Slight
Kia Ceed crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 25 October 2021
5 m awayRef 2021451102378
Serious
Mercedes S Class crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 13 January 2020
7 m awayRef 2020450918688
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 12 July 1999
14 m awayRef 199945NC00251
Slight
Van crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 15 April 1981
14 m awayRef 198145CA00130
Slight
Renault Megane crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 21 February 2002
14 m awayRef 200245TV19101
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 54 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 199645NC00148 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 1996.