M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 13 March 1997 at 13:50 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a car were involved in a crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 13:50 on Thursday 13 March 1997. The 34-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Mar 1997
- Thursday, 13:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35889, longitude -0.65494, in the GU20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199745NM00029
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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 slight injury crash on 4 February 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Combo crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 4 February 2000
At the same spotRef 200045NM00013
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 19 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200145MN10296
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 30 August 2008
20 m awayRef 200845SU27618
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 20 June 1997
22 m awayRef 199745NM00052
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 23 December 2002
22 m awayRef 200245SR32753
Slight
Mazda 3 crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 5 May 2024
38 m awayRef 2024451439390
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 199745NM00029 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.