B385 crash in Runnymede on 25 June 1997 at 08:00 involving a Citroen Xantia
A Citroen Xantia and a Vauxhall Nova were involved in a crash on the B385 in Runnymede at 08:00 on Wednesday 25 June 1997. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Nova was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1997
- Wednesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen Xantia and Vauxhall Nova
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34882, longitude -0.49972, in the KT15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Byfleet, New Haw and West Byfleet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NA00274
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 385
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 26 August 2002.
Serious
Rover 400 Series crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 26 August 2002
At the same spotRef 200245RS26372
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 15 December 2002
10 m awayRef 200245RS31437
Slight
Kia Venga crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 5 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025451611953
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 25 January 2017
15 m awayRef 2017450151331
Slight
Car crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 1 July 1979
20 m awayRef 197945AD00193
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B385 in Runnymede, 13 May 1997
22 m awayRef 199745NA00217
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen Xantia
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Nova
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,196 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Nova)
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 199745NA00274 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1997.