B311 crash in Surrey Heath on 6 April 1997 at 15:55 involving a Porsche 911
A Porsche 911 crashed on the B311 in Surrey Heath at 15:55 on Sunday 6 April 1997. A 38-year-old male passenger 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 Apr 1997
- Sunday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Porsche 911
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3408, longitude -0.68533, in the GU18 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NC00106
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 311
- 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, at the same spot, was a fatal crash on 25 May 1998.
Fatal
Volvo 440 crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 25 May 1998
At the same spotRef 199845NC00232
Fatal
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 14 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200445SU49843
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 2 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199745NC00030
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 30 June 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RS39013
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 18 October 2011
14 m awayRef 201145SU64866
Slight
Car crash on the B311 in Surrey Heath, 8 January 1989
14 m awayRef 198945NC00024
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Porsche 911
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 3,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Porsche 911)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 199745NC00106 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1997.