A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 30 October 2010 at 15:45 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Renault Trafic van were involved in a crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 15:45 on Saturday 30 October 2010. The 45-year-old male driver of the Mercedes E Class and a 27-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes E Class were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 30 Oct 2010
- Saturday, 15:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Renault Trafic
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35318, longitude -0.70392, in the GU19 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Bagshot, Surrey Heath, GU19 5EH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201045SU55640
- 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
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Fine, 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 1 February 2007.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 1 February 2007
At the same spotRef 200745SU98885
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 26 May 2011
At the same spotRef 201145SU61395
Slight
Volkswagen Eos crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 23 November 2010
At the same spotRef 201045SU56227
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 4 June 2008
At the same spotRef 200845SU23458
Fatal
DAF Trucks Fad 85CF crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 14 December 2001
At the same spotRef 200145MW16085
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 30 June 1990
At the same spotRef 199045NC00259
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,148 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Renault Trafic
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,870 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes E Class)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 201045SU55640 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 2010.