C road crash in Tandridge RH7 on 9 October 2000 at 14:50 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class and a Vauxhall Cavalier were involved in a crash on a C road in Tandridge at 14:50 on Monday 9 October 2000. The 27-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Cavalier was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 2000
- Monday, 14:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes C Class and Vauxhall Cavalier
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18544, longitude -0.01591, in the RH7 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200045EC00313
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2003.
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in Tandridge, 25 June 2003
32 m awayRef 200345RE38891
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tandridge, 30 August 1980
36 m awayRef 198045BC00232
Serious
Alexander Dennis crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 6 February 2024
36 m awayRef 2024451407798
Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Tandridge, 19 February 1987
41 m awayRef 198745EC00037
Slight
Ford Cortina crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 22 May 1993
41 m awayRef 199345EC00135
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on a C road in Tandridge, 25 April 1994
61 m awayRef 199445EC00147
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Cavalier
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Cavalier)
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 200045EC00313 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.