B288 crash in Epsom and Ewell on 23 December 2011 at 23:55 involving a Seat Ibiza
A Seat Ibiza crashed on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell at 23:55 on Friday 23 December 2011. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 2011
- Friday, 23:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Seat Ibiza
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32544, longitude -0.24498, in the KT17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Epsom. It is one of the crashes that make up the College, Epsom and Ewell, KT17 4NB area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145EP67006
- Council area
- Epsom and Ewell
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 288
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- 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, 10 metres away, was a fatal crash on 8 August 1986.
Fatal
Minibus crash on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell, 8 August 1986
10 m awayRef 198601ZP00841
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell, 2 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RN40662
Slight
Austin Mini crash on the B286 in Epsom and Ewell, 23 September 1992
22 m awayRef 199201ZP00939
Slight
Car crash on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell, 20 November 1987
22 m awayRef 198701ZP01155
Serious
Car crash on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell, 10 October 1988
32 m awayRef 198801ZP01021
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B288 in Epsom and Ewell, 30 July 2014
46 m awayRef 2014450017406
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Seat Ibiza
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Seat Ibiza)
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 201145EP67006 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Epsom and Ewell road accident statistics for 2011.