A323 crash in Guildford on 29 March 2011 at 15:10 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A323 in Guildford at 15:10 on Tuesday 29 March 2011. The 42-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Golf and the 48-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Mar 2011
- Tuesday, 15:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25108, longitude -0.5999, in the GU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoughton South, Guildford, GU2 9SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145GU59667
- 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
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 10 June 2002.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A323 in Guildford, 10 June 2002
At the same spotRef 200245RW23528
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 24 December 2005
At the same spotRef 200545GU78613
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A323 in Guildford, 21 September 1996
At the same spotRef 199645WG00513
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A323 in Guildford, 7 September 2012
At the same spotRef 201245GU73717
Serious
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 5 July 1985
At the same spotRef 198545WG00246
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A323 in Guildford, 15 October 2011
At the same spotRef 201145GU65008
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 42 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 42, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
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 201145GU59667 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 2011.