Serious B3012 crash in Guildford on 8 September 2008 at 20:53 involving a car
A car hit two pedestrians on the B3012 in Guildford at 20:53 on Monday 8 September 2008. A 19-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured and an 18-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Sep 2008
- Monday, 20:53
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3004, longitude -0.66453, in the GU24 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Normandy & Pirbright, Guildford, GU24 0DN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845GU28860
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3012
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Carriageway hazards
- Any animal in carriageway (except ridden horse)
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 40 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2002.
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 19 April 2002
40 m awayRef 200245RW20913
Slight
Car crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 20 December 1979
54 m awayRef 197945CA00483
Slight
Car crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 9 January 1997
61 m awayRef 199745WG00011
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 30 October 2003
71 m awayRef 200345RW44597
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 13 January 2008
80 m awayRef 200845GU16914
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B3012 in Guildford, 18 October 1988
104 m awayRef 198845NW00449
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: 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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,721 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 18, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
Casualty 2: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 19, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, not crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, back to traffic
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 200845GU28860 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 2008.