A24 crash in Mole Valley on 8 December 2011 at 16:06 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the A24 in Mole Valley at 16:06 on Thursday 8 December 2011. The 49-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Dec 2011
- Thursday, 16:06
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30165, longitude -0.30901, in the KT21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashtead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashtead Lanes & Common, Mole Valley, KT21 2SD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145MO66432
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Raining, 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 11 April 2006.
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 11 April 2006
14 m awayRef 200645MO83887
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 14 September 1994
20 m awayRef 199445ED00306
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 20 September 1985
28 m awayRef 198545ED00312
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 22 October 1992
28 m awayRef 199245ED00382
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 24 May 1987
28 m awayRef 198745ED00167
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 25 May 1984
36 m awayRef 198445GL00077
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 77 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, 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 201145MO66432 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2011.