C road crash in Waverley GU10 on 3 May 2003 at 00:40 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo crashed on a C road in Waverley at 00:40 on Saturday 3 May 2003. A 15-year-old male passenger and a 15-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 2003
- Saturday, 00:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.14637, longitude -0.75562, in the GU10 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RW36865
- Council area
- Waverley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 32 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 March 1996.
Slight
Fiat Croma crash on a C road in Waverley, 1 March 1996
32 m awayRef 199645WF00100
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Waverley, 5 November 2003
36 m awayRef 200345WA44872
Fatal
Toyota Yaris crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 20 May 2025
36 m awayRef 2025451592673
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Waverley, 27 September 2014
41 m awayRef 2014450018354
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Waverley, 2 August 2008
41 m awayRef 200845WA26183
Slight
Citroen Xantia crash on a C road in Waverley, 21 December 2000
41 m awayRef 200045WF00524
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 200345RW36865 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waverley road accident statistics for 2003.