A321 crash in Surrey Heath on 15 May 1999 at 03:30 involving a Ford Orion
A Ford Orion crashed on the A321 in Surrey Heath at 03:30 on Saturday 15 May 1999. The 28-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 May 1999
- Saturday, 03:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Orion
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31181, longitude -0.73622, in the GU16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frimley.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 199945NC00166
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 321
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 24 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 10 May 2019.
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B3411 in Surrey Heath, 10 May 2019
24 m awayRef 2019450837999
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 6 July 1989
50 m awayRef 198945NC00310
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3411 in Surrey Heath, 20 August 2025
54 m awayRef 2025451631311
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 20 December 1993
73 m awayRef 199345NC00390
Slight
Ford Transit Connect crash on the B3411 in Surrey Heath, 11 January 2020
76 m awayRef 2020450918270
Serious
Renault Megane crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 20 July 2007
78 m awayRef 200745SU07575
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Orion
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Orion)
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 199945NC00166 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 1999.