A331 crash in Surrey Heath on 10 October 2009 at 23:40 involving a Vauxhall Vectra
A Vauxhall Vectra crashed on the A331 in Surrey Heath at 23:40 on Saturday 10 October 2009. The 45-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 10 Oct 2009
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Vectra
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32707, longitude -0.76752, in the GU15 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Blackwater and Hawley, Hart, GU17 9BJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 200945SU44609
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 October 2023.
Serious
Yamaha MT crash on the A331 in Surrey Heath, 8 October 2023
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Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 10 December 1983
42 m awayRef 198345CA00445
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 16 June 1990
67 m awayRef 199045NC00235
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 23 May 1990
76 m awayRef 199045NC00199
Slight
Van crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 11 September 1987
76 m awayRef 198745NC00396
Slight
Car crash on the A321 in Surrey Heath, 26 September 1989
76 m awayRef 198945NC00458
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Vectra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Any animal (except ridden horse)
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Vectra)
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 200945SU44609 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 2009.