Serious unclassified road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH1 on 4 February 2004 at 07:29 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta crashed on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead at 07:29 on Wednesday 4 February 2004. The 37-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Feb 2004
- Wednesday, 07:29
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21312, longitude -0.15733, in the RH1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horley East & Salfords, Reigate and Banstead, RH1 5JX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200445RE48433
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- 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
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 October 2023.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 22 October 2023
22 m awayRef 2023451365722
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 29 November 1979
50 m awayRef 197945BD00448
Slight
Minibus crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 29 December 1979
64 m awayRef 197945BD00494
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 18 January 1984
78 m awayRef 198445BD00012
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 26 March 1982
85 m awayRef 198245BD00107
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 29 December 2004
92 m awayRef 200445RE62777
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Telegraph or electricity pole
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,117 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 37, 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 200445RE48433 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 2004.