B3000 crash in Guildford on 4 December 2008 at 08:30 involving a Volkswagen Golf
Four vehicles, including a Volkswagen Golf and a Citroen C3, were involved in a crash on the B3000 in Guildford at 08:30 on Thursday 4 December 2008. All four casualties were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 4 Dec 2008
- Thursday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 4
- Volkswagen Golf and 3 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.20529, longitude -0.59814, in the GU7 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Shalford, Guildford, GU7 3DB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845GU32473
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3000
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, 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 15 August 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 15 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WG00428
Slight
Car crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 16 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198745WO00065
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 18 December 1997
At the same spotRef 199745WG00808
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 8 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WG00244
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 6 June 2011
At the same spotRef 201145WA61569
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 23 November 1995
At the same spotRef 199545WG00649
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen C3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,587 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 3: Seat Leon
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
Casualty 3: Driver
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Seat Leon)
Casualty 4: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Citroen C3)
- 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 200845GU32473 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.