A23 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 21 October 2003 at 15:07 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Daewoo Lanos were involved in a crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead at 15:07 on Tuesday 21 October 2003. The 58-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Oct 2003
- Tuesday, 15:07
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Daewoo Lanos
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25146, longitude -0.16526, in the RH1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Redhill. It is one of the crashes that make up the Redhill East, Reigate and Banstead, RH1 2LR area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RE43952
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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 7 November 1995.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 7 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199545ER00283
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 28 May 2002
At the same spotRef 200245RE22457
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 5 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199745ER00033
Slight
Car crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 13 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198645ER00390
Slight
Jeep Cherokee crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 16 March 2004
At the same spotRef 200445RE50044
Slight
Honda CB crash on the A23 in Reigate and Banstead, 24 November 2025
5 m awayRef 2025451673009
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Daewoo Lanos
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 58, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200345RE43952 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 2003.