A246 crash in Guildford on 17 December 2006 at 00:09 involving a Vauxhall Omega
A car and a Vauxhall Omega were involved in a crash on the A246 in Guildford at 00:09 on Sunday 17 December 2006. A 40-year-old female passenger in the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2006
- Sunday, 00:09
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Vauxhall Omega
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26329, longitude -0.40818, in the KT24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200645GU96173
- 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
- 246
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, 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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 20 August 2005.
Serious
Toyota Yaris crash on the A246 in Guildford, 20 August 2005
14 m awayRef 200545GU72523
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A246 in Guildford, 14 January 2000
14 m awayRef 200045WG00025
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A246 in Guildford, 29 December 2004
22 m awayRef 200445GU62780
Serious
Car crash on the A246 in Guildford, 4 December 1981
28 m awayRef 198145GL00222
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A246 in Guildford, 4 February 2002
28 m awayRef 200245SR18231
Slight
Mazda 323 crash on the A246 in Guildford, 14 November 1992
32 m awayRef 199245WG00451
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- 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
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Omega
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,498 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 200645GU96173 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 2006.