A323 crash in Guildford on 21 April 2009 at 21:49 involving a Citroen AX
A Citroen AX and a Citroen Berlingo were involved in a crash on the A323 in Guildford at 21:49 on Tuesday 21 April 2009. The 28-year-old male driver of the Citroen AX was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Apr 2009
- Tuesday, 21:49
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen AX and Citroen Berlingo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26468, longitude -0.63202, in the GU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wood Street Village. It is one of the crashes that make up the Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3QU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200945GU38250
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 December 1979.
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 17 December 1979
10 m awayRef 197945GD00397
Slight
Alexander Dennis crash on the A323 in Guildford, 14 June 2013
17 m awayRef 2013450006785
Serious
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 26 November 1988
22 m awayRef 198845WG00426
Serious
Peugeot Tweet crash on the A323 in Guildford, 3 August 2022
35 m awayRef 2022451205602
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A323 in Guildford, 18 July 1991
40 m awayRef 199145WG00257
Serious
Lexmoto Adrenaline 125 crash on the A323 in Guildford, 6 September 2019
45 m awayRef 2019450875231
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen AX
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,527 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Citroen Berlingo
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen AX)
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 200945GU38250 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 2009.