A325 crash in Surrey Heath on 12 December 1997 at 09:00 involving a Rover Metro
A Rover Metro hit a pedestrian on the A325 in Surrey Heath at 09:00 on Friday 12 December 1997. A 38-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 1997
- Friday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Rover Metro
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31281, longitude -0.74926, in the GU16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NC00483
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 325
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Stop sign
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 331
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 slight injury crash on 21 December 2003.
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 21 December 2003
At the same spotRef 200345SU47109
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 28 August 2010
At the same spotRef 201045SU53713
Slight
Porsche crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 21 June 2007
10 m awayRef 200745SU06258
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 8 May 1997
10 m awayRef 1997440AA0608
Slight
Audi A3 crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 13 December 2002
14 m awayRef 200245SR31429
Serious
Zastava Yugo crash on the A325 in Rushmoor, 5 January 1997
20 m awayRef 1997440AA0011
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Rover Metro
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,118 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 38, hit by vehicle 1 (Rover Metro)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 199745NC00483 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.