C road crash in Tandridge RH8 on 20 April 1997 at 12:15 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Volkswagen Golf were involved in a crash on a C road in Tandridge at 12:15 on Sunday 20 April 1997. The 18-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 20 Apr 1997
- Sunday, 12:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25188, longitude -0.01652, in the RH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxted.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745EC00132
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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, 36 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 10 April 1993.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Tandridge, 10 April 1993
36 m awayRef 199345EC00084
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Peugeot 308 crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 16 March 2011
50 m awayRef 201145TA59237
Slight
Renault 5 crash on a C road in Tandridge, 19 February 2005
50 m awayRef 200545TA64764
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Tandridge, 21 May 2005
50 m awayRef 200545TA68272
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tandridge, 11 November 1983
61 m awayRef 198345BC00327
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tandridge, 26 May 1979
61 m awayRef 197945BC00123
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,299 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Engine capacity
- 2,792 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199745EC00132 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 1997.