M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 21 March 2008 at 17:08 involving a Renault Clio
A Renault Clio crashed on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 17:08 on Friday 21 March 2008. The 24-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Mar 2008
- Friday, 17:08
- Vehicles
- 1
- Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31993, longitude -0.74719, in the GU16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Frimley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Frimley, Surrey Heath, GU16 8PD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200845SU20102
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 October 2014.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 21 October 2014
9 m awayRef 2014450019594
Slight
Vauxhall Astramax crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 1 February 1999
10 m awayRef 199945NM00013
Slight
Rover Montego crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 1 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199645NM00052
Slight
Peugeot 405 crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 5 February 1997
10 m awayRef 199745NM00010
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 18 December 2010
10 m awayRef 201045SU57445
Serious
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 28 March 1985
10 m awayRef 198545NC00104
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Nearside or offside crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Renault Clio)
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 200845SU20102 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 2008.