B3012 crash in Guildford on 24 December 2005 at 20:30 involving a Ford Escort
A car and a Ford Escort were involved in a crash on the B3012 in Guildford at 20:30 on Saturday 24 December 2005. A 26-year-old male passenger in the car, a 26-year-old male passenger in the car and a female passenger in the car were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Dec 2005
- Saturday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Ford Escort
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30071, longitude -0.6605, in the GU24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Normandy & Pirbright, Guildford, GU24 0QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200545GU78593
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3012
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 11 September 1996.
Serious
Suzuki crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 11 September 1996
10 m awayRef 199645WG00492
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 23 August 2001
14 m awayRef 200145MW10401
Fatal
Motorcycle crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 17 October 2002
14 m awayRef 200245RG28466
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 6 November 1994
22 m awayRef 199445WG00661
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 17 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199145NW00479
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 19 March 1992
32 m awayRef 199245NW00111
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Escort
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,597 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
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 200545GU78593 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.