A322 crash in Surrey Heath on 29 May 2003 at 04:40 involving a Fiat Punto
A Fiat Punto crashed on the A322 in Surrey Heath at 04:40 on Thursday 29 May 2003. The 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 May 2003
- Thursday, 04:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Fiat Punto
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35225, longitude -0.66173, in the GU18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwater, Surrey Heath, GU18 5RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200345SR38050
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 322
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 March 2018.
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 11 March 2018
7 m awayRef 2018450275060
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 1 November 2022
8 m awayRef 2022451236648
Serious
Car crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 21 June 1985
10 m awayRef 198545NC00246
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 1 July 2021
21 m awayRef 2021451062196
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Surrey Heath, 25 March 1994
22 m awayRef 199445NC00062
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 10 June 2011
22 m awayRef 201145SU61322
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Fiat Punto)
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 200345SR38050 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 2003.