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Serious A325 crash in Waverley on 24 December 1997 at 16:50 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the A325 in Waverley at 16:50 on Wednesday 24 December 1997. A 9-year-old male pedestrian hit by vehicle 1 was seriously injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
24 Dec 1997
Wednesday, 16:50
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19853, longitude -0.8192, in the GU10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wrecclesham.

Map of where the crash happened in Waverley

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199745WF00535
Council area
Waverley
Police force
Surrey
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
325
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
Dark, no street lighting
Weather
Raining, no high winds
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 October 2025.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    North East
    Travelling to
    South West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    38 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    55 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Serious

    Male, aged 9, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's offside

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 199745WF00535 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waverley road accident statistics for 1997.