A22 crash in Tandridge on 15 January 2000 at 23:57 involving a Ford Escort
A Ford Escort and a Renault Laguna were involved in a crash on the A22 in Tandridge at 23:57 on Saturday 15 January 2000. The 36-year-old female driver of the Ford Escort and a 35-year-old male passenger in the Ford Escort were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Jan 2000
- Saturday, 23:57
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Escort and Renault Laguna
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29309, longitude -0.06951, in the CR3 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200045EC00016
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 30 November 1998.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 30 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199845EC00394
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 27 January 2010
10 m awayRef 201045TA49602
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 21 January 2023
13 m awayRef 2023451266385
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 7 November 2009
14 m awayRef 200945TA45722
Serious
Volvo 440 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 21 October 2001
14 m awayRef 200145ME13155
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 9 June 1996
14 m awayRef 199645EC00173
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Laguna
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,783 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Escort)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 200045EC00016 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 2000.