A243 crash in Mole Valley on 10 July 2006 at 08:30 involving a Rover 75
A Rover 75, a Vauxhall Vectra and a Fiat Punto were involved in a crash on the A243 in Mole Valley at 08:30 on Monday 10 July 2006. The 43-year-old male driver of the Rover 75, the 43-year-old male driver of the Vauxhall Vectra and the 21-year-old male driver of the Fiat Punto were 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
- 10 Jul 2006
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 3
- Rover 75 and 2 others
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31362, longitude -0.32852, in the KT22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leatherhead North, Mole Valley, KT22 7QJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200645MO88395
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 243
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 12 July 1994.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A244 in Mole Valley, 12 July 1994
10 m awayRef 199445ED00228
Slight
Tesla Model Y crash on the A243 in Mole Valley, 20 September 2025
11 m awayRef 2025451645156
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A243 in Mole Valley, 1 October 2015
22 m awayRef 2015450030421
Slight
Citroen XM crash on the A243 in Mole Valley, 13 September 1996
41 m awayRef 199645ED00352
Slight
DAF Trucks crash on the A243 in Mole Valley, 25 April 2014
47 m awayRef 2014450014892
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A243 in Mole Valley, 8 August 2020
53 m awayRef 2020450970976
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Rover 75
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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,951 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Vectra
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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,910 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 3: Fiat Punto
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going 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
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Rover 75)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 43, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Vauxhall Vectra)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Fiat Punto)
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 200645MO88395 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 2006.