Unclassified road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH2 on 14 February 1997 at 07:40 involving an Audi 80
An Audi 80 crashed on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead at 07:40 on Friday 14 February 1997. The 30-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Feb 1997
- Friday, 07:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Audi 80
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25733, longitude -0.19185, in the RH2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745ER00040
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Frost or ice
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Audi 80
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,781 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi 80)
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 199745ER00040 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.