M25 crash in Runnymede on 17 August 2005 at 17:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Toyota Landcruiser were involved in a crash on the M25 in Runnymede at 17:00 on Wednesday 17 August 2005. The 59-year-old male driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Aug 2005
- Wednesday, 17:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Toyota Landcruiser
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39124, longitude -0.5308, in the KT16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chertsey St Ann's, Runnymede, KT16 9NL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Runnymede
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200545SU72337
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2001.
Slight
Scania crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 13 March 2001
14 m awayRef 2001450003142
Slight
Honda S2000 crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 25 December 2004
14 m awayRef 200445RU62642
Slight
MG HS crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 5 September 2025
28 m awayRef 2025451638065
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 24 March 1996
28 m awayRef 199645NM00033
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Runnymede, 24 October 1988
30 m awayRef 198845NA00400
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 23 April 2016
31 m awayRef 2016450062330
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Landcruiser
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- Engine capacity
- 2,982 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
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 200545SU72337 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 2005.