M25 crash in Mole Valley on 12 October 2006 at 19:16 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the M25 in Mole Valley at 19:16 on Thursday 12 October 2006. A 41-year-old female passenger in 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
- 12 Oct 2006
- Thursday, 19:16
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29141, longitude -0.28529, in the KT18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Brockham, Betchworth, Buckland, Box Hill & Headley, Mole Valley, KT18 6EH area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200645MO93020
- 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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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 10 November 1999.
Slight
Daewoo Leganza crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 10 November 1999
At the same spotRef 199945WM00079
Slight
Peugeot 406 crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 7 November 2004
At the same spotRef 200445MO60420
Slight
Chrysler crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 3 September 2006
At the same spotRef 200645MO90785
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 24 February 2004
10 m awayRef 200445MO49498
Serious
Car crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 22 April 2011
10 m awayRef 201145MO60355
Slight
MAN crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 23 September 2025
12 m awayRef 2025451654176
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- 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
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: 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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 65 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 200645MO93020 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.