M23 crash in Tandridge on 1 January 2004 at 21:10 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a Peugeot 306 were involved in a crash on the M23 in Tandridge at 21:10 on Thursday 1 January 2004. The 27-year-old female driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 70 mph limit.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jan 2004
- Thursday, 21:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Peugeot 306
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26204, longitude -0.1237, in the RH1 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bletchingley & Nutfield, Tandridge, RH1 3BU area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200445TA47300
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 23
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, street lights lit
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 1992.
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the M23 in Reigate and Banstead, 21 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199245ER00378
Slight
Mercedes crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 6 August 1992
10 m awayRef 199245ER00272
Slight
Ford KA crash on the M23 in Tandridge, 13 December 2009
10 m awayRef 200945RE47364
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 23 April 1990
10 m awayRef 199045ER00165
Fatal
Car crash on the M25 in Reigate and Banstead, 5 October 1986
10 m awayRef 198645ER00381
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the M23 in Tandridge, 10 August 1994
14 m awayRef 199445EM00101
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Peugeot 306
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,905 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 27, 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 200445TA47300 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 2004.