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Fatal A3100 crash in Waverley on 25 December 1997 at 15:40 involving a Lancia Prisma

A Lancia Prisma crashed on the A3100 in Waverley at 15:40 on Thursday 25 December 1997. The 28-year-old male driver was killed.

It happened in daylight on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Fatal
Date
25 Dec 1997
Thursday, 15:40
Vehicles
1
Lancia Prisma
Casualties
1
1 killed

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.19436, longitude -0.59676, in the GU7 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Waverley

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  • 1 crash
  • Fatal

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
199745WF00538
Council area
Waverley
Police force
Surrey
Highway authority
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
3100
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph
Urban or rural
Urban
Trunk road
Non-trunk road

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 December 2011.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Lancia Prisma

    Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded and overturned
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    28 years
    Engine capacity
    1,585 cc
    Fuel or propulsion
    Petrol
    Vehicle age
    11 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Fatal

    Male, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Lancia Prisma)

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 199745WF00538 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.