A3 crash in Guildford on 9 February 2005 at 07:30 involving a Toyota Hiace van
A Toyota Hiace van and a car were involved in a crash on the A3 in Guildford at 07:30 on Wednesday 9 February 2005. The 47-year-old male driver of the Toyota Hiace van and a male passenger in the Toyota Hiace van were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2005
- Wednesday, 07:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Hiace and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31973, longitude -0.45258, in the GU23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Cobham and Downside, Elmbridge, KT11 1EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200545GU64469
- 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
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 25
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 March 2003.
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 27 March 2003
20 m awayRef 200345GU35475
Slight
Rover Range Rover crash on the A3 in Guildford, 31 October 2002
20 m awayRef 200245RW29290
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 23 December 1983
22 m awayRef 198345CD00443
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A3 in Guildford, 5 May 1995
22 m awayRef 199545WG00233
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 21 March 1980
22 m awayRef 198045CD00091
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3 in Guildford, 6 July 2023
23 m awayRef 2023451326724
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Hiace
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,494 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hiace)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, van occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Hiace)
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 200545GU64469 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 2005.