C road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH1 on 6 October 1997 at 10:20 involving a Ford Transit van
A Ford Transit van crashed on a C road in Reigate and Banstead at 10:20 on Monday 6 October 1997. The 33-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Oct 1997
- Monday, 10:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20398, longitude -0.13882, in the RH1 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745EC00315
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 August 1997.
Slight
Foden crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 1 August 1997
10 m awayRef 199745EC00249
Slight
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12 m awayRef 2015450037236
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 20 December 2013
13 m awayRef 2013450011976
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 18 February 2008
22 m awayRef 200845RE18430
Slight
Ford Transit crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 6 January 1998
22 m awayRef 199845EC00004
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 9 February 2013
46 m awayRef 2013450003524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Transit)
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 199745EC00315 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 1997.