B2034 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 23 October 1997 at 07:25 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion, a Peugeot 504 van and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead at 07:25 on Thursday 23 October 1997. A 24-year-old female passenger in the Ford Orion and the 22-year-old male driver of the Ford Orion were 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
- 23 Oct 1997
- Thursday, 07:25
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Orion and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23526, longitude -0.1897, in the RH2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Reigate.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745ER00289
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2034
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 September 2022.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead, 5 September 2022
7 m awayRef 2022451217344
Serious
Rover 200 Series crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead, 23 April 1998
82 m awayRef 199845ER00122
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead, 13 September 2007
82 m awayRef 200745RE10445
Slight
Honda Accord crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 10 August 2007
82 m awayRef 200745RE09213
Slight
Car crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead, 17 December 1987
85 m awayRef 198745ER00488
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B2034 in Reigate and Banstead, 31 January 2018
86 m awayRef 2018450264578
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 504
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,304 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,043 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 199745ER00289 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.