C road crash in Guildford GU5 on 28 July 2011 at 20:55 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf and a BMW X5 were involved in a crash on a C road in Guildford at 20:55 on Thursday 28 July 2011. The 40-year-old male driver of the BMW X5 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Jul 2011
- Thursday, 20:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Golf and BMW X5
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22558, longitude -0.4735, in the GU5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tillingbourne, Guildford, GU5 9TD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145GU62964
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- 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, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 May 2018.
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Land Rover Discovery crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 28 May 2018
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Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Guildford, 3 August 2014
9 m awayRef 2014450017244
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Guildford, 23 June 1986
10 m awayRef 198645WG00185
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on a C road in Guildford, 16 September 1990
28 m awayRef 199045WG00346
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Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 14 December 2018
36 m awayRef 2018450803793
Serious
Honda crash on a C road in Guildford, 2 February 1997
41 m awayRef 199745WG00074
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Vehicle 2: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 4,619 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW X5)
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 201145GU62964 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.