Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU7 on 28 August 2003 at 23:30 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on an unclassified road in Guildford at 23:30 on Thursday 28 August 2003. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Aug 2003
- Thursday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20687, longitude -0.64018, in the GU7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farncombe. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shalford, Guildford, GU3 1DW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345RW41625
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 May 2010.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 17 May 2010
10 m awayRef 201045GU50553
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Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 11 July 1998
20 m awayRef 199845WG00431
Slight
Toyota Auris crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 16 November 2009
20 m awayRef 200945GU46077
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Peugeot 405 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 23 April 2001
30 m awayRef 200145MW04641
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Ford Transit crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 17 November 2003
41 m awayRef 200345GU45202
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 11 July 1998
58 m awayRef 199845WG00432
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,389 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 200345RW41625 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2003.