A331 crash in Surrey Heath on 9 May 2007 at 06:34 involving a Renault Trafic van
A Renault Trafic van and a Ford Fiesta were involved in a crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath at 06:34 on Wednesday 9 May 2007. The 45-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 May 2007
- Wednesday, 06:34
- Vehicles
- 2
- Renault Trafic and Ford Fiesta
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32489, longitude -0.76586, in the GU15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Watchetts, Surrey Heath, GU15 2QT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200745SU04385
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 331
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2012.
Slight
Car crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 8 January 2012
At the same spotRef 201245SU67471
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 19 April 2004
At the same spotRef 200445SU51604
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 15 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200945SU37672
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 25 July 2004
At the same spotRef 200445SU55930
Fatal
Mazda 6 crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 16 October 2008
At the same spotRef 200845SU30025
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 13 May 2006
At the same spotRef 200645SU85398
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Fiesta)
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 200745SU04385 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 2007.