Serious B291 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 24 February 2001 at 21:00 involving a Toyota RAV4
A Toyota RAV4 hit a pedestrian on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead at 21:00 on Saturday 24 February 2001. A 37-year-old female pedestrian was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Feb 2001
- Saturday, 21:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota RAV4
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32481, longitude -0.23338, in the KT17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Tadworth and Epsom Downs. It is one of the crashes that make up the Nork, Reigate and Banstead, KT17 3LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200145ME02207
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 291
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 25 June 2009.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 25 June 2009
At the same spotRef 200945RE43421
Slight
Fiat 500 crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 8 September 2017
8 m awayRef 2017450221306
Slight
Car crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 17 February 1990
14 m awayRef 199001ZP00198
Serious
BMW 4 Series crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 23 February 2023
22 m awayRef 2023451280204
Slight
Honda crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 18 July 1999
22 m awayRef 199901ZP00639
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the B291 in Reigate and Banstead, 9 May 1991
22 m awayRef 199101ZP00481
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota RAV4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 37, hit by vehicle 1 (Toyota RAV4)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 200145ME02207 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 2001.