A25 crash in Tandridge on 21 December 2011 at 08:02 involving a Mercedes ML Class
A Mercedes ML Class and a Seat Arosa were involved in a crash on the A25 in Tandridge at 08:02 on Wednesday 21 December 2011. The 27-year-old male driver of the Seat Arosa was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Dec 2011
- Wednesday, 08:02
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes ML Class and Seat Arosa
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25454, longitude -0.00692, in the RH8 postcode district and within the built-up area of Oxted. It is one of the crashes that make up the Oxted North, Tandridge, RH8 9JQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201145TA67018
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 25
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered 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
- 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, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 14 January 2011.
Serious
Renault Clio crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 14 January 2011
At the same spotRef 201145TA57426
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 25 May 2005
At the same spotRef 200545TA68818
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 31 December 2005
10 m awayRef 200545TA78814
Slight
Vauxhall Zafira crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 26 January 2009
10 m awayRef 200945TA34365
Slight
Renault 5 crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 14 May 1996
10 m awayRef 199645EC00138
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A25 in Tandridge, 7 October 2010
10 m awayRef 201045TA54496
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Entering main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 69 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Seat Arosa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Seat Arosa)
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 201145TA67018 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 2011.