M25 crash in Mole Valley on 18 December 2005 at 18:37 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the M25 in Mole Valley at 18:37 on Sunday 18 December 2005. The 20-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Dec 2005
- Sunday, 18:37
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29564, longitude -0.30995, in the KT22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashtead Park, Mole Valley, KT22 8TX area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200545MO78616
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 1997.
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 16 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199745WM00133
Slight
Vauxhall Astravan crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 26 June 2007
At the same spotRef 200745MO06689
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 16 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WM00063
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 16 July 2013
9 m awayRef 2013450007745
Slight
MAN crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 26 February 2014
13 m awayRef 2014450013471
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 17 December 2000
14 m awayRef 200045WM00131
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 200545MO78616 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2005.