A331 crash in Guildford on 17 June 2011 at 22:10 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus crashed on the A331 in Guildford at 22:10 on Friday 17 June 2011. A 15-year-old female passenger and a 15-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Jun 2011
- Friday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25122, longitude -0.73043, in the GU12 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ash Wharf, Guildford, GU12 6SB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145GU61822
- 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
- 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, no street lighting
- 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 29 January 2004.
Slight
Mitsubishi Space Wagon crash on the A331 in Guildford, 29 January 2004
At the same spotRef 200445GU48292
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A331 in Guildford, 10 February 2011
20 m awayRef 201145GU58310
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A331 in Rushmoor, 13 February 2001
30 m awayRef 2001440AA0299
Slight
Ford New Holland crash on the A331 in Guildford, 27 April 1998
50 m awayRef 199845WG00248
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A331 in Guildford, 28 February 1999
67 m awayRef 199945WG00110
Slight
MCC Smart crash on the A331 in Guildford, 23 December 2011
81 m awayRef 201145GU66807
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- 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 201145GU61822 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.