A3100 crash in Guildford on 3 November 2004 at 08:13 involving a Daewoo Espero
A Daewoo Espero and a Volvo bus were involved in a crash on the A3100 in Guildford at 08:13 on Wednesday 3 November 2004. The 23-year-old female driver of the Daewoo Espero and the 44-year-old male driver of the Volvo bus were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Nov 2004
- Wednesday, 08:13
- Vehicles
- 2
- Daewoo Espero and Volvo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22422, longitude -0.57952, in the GU3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Castle, Guildford, GU4 8BL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200445GU60094
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3100
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a fatal crash on 10 September 1993.
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 10 September 1993
14 m awayRef 199345WG00541
Serious
Lorry crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 1 July 1988
14 m awayRef 198845WG00236
Slight
Taxi crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 25 August 1985
14 m awayRef 198545WG00313
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 25 November 2025
41 m awayRef 2025451676051
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 19 May 1998
45 m awayRef 199845WG00284
Slight
Car crash on the A3100 in Guildford, 20 November 1987
50 m awayRef 198745WG00446
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Daewoo Espero
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Volvo
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Daewoo Espero)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 44, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volvo)
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 200445GU60094 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 2004.