A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 10 May 1997 at 13:50 involving a Vauxhall Cavalier
Two Vauxhall Cavaliers and a Nissan 100 were involved in a crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 13:50 on Saturday 10 May 1997. A 21-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1, the 34-year-old female driver of the Nissan 100 and a 27-year-old female passenger in the Nissan 100 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 May 1997
- Saturday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 3
- Vauxhall Cavalier and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33794, longitude -0.75303, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NC00157
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 March 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 23 March 1983
14 m awayRef 198345CA00110
Slight
Volkswagen T-Cross crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 22 April 2025
17 m awayRef 2025451580767
Slight
Lorry crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 January 1986
20 m awayRef 198645NC00034
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 23 October 1997
20 m awayRef 199745NC00388
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 February 2025
25 m awayRef 2025451555244
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 25 February 2023
31 m awayRef 2023451282079
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,495 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Vehicle 2: Nissan 100
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan 100)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Nissan 100)
- 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 199745NC00157 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.