Serious B2450 crash in Mole Valley on 10 June 1998 at 07:35 involving a Mazda MX-5
A Mazda MX-5 crashed on the B2450 in Mole Valley at 07:35 on Wednesday 10 June 1998. The 51-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Jun 1998
- Wednesday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mazda MX-5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28417, longitude -0.32788, in the KT22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199845ED00199
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2450
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 June 1980.
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 30 June 1980
28 m awayRef 198045GL00129
Slight
Car crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 29 May 1981
32 m awayRef 198145GL00092
Serious
Nissan Micra crash on the B2450 in Mole Valley, 4 August 2003
50 m awayRef 200345RE41023
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B2450 in Mole Valley, 30 April 2008
60 m awayRef 200845MO21862
Serious
Mazda MX-5 crash on the B2450 in Mole Valley, 29 August 2003
80 m awayRef 200345RE41963
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the B2450 in Mole Valley, 1 September 2000
80 m awayRef 200045ED00242
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mazda MX-5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,840 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 51, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mazda MX-5)
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 199845ED00199 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 1998.