A240 crash in Reigate and Banstead on 5 November 2012 at 12:24 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis and a Toyota Yaris were involved in a crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead at 12:24 on Monday 5 November 2012. The 36-year-old female driver of the Toyota Yaris and a 41-year-old female passenger in the Toyota Yaris were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Nov 2012
- Monday, 12:24
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Avensis and Toyota Yaris
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30907, longitude -0.22325, in the KT20 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Tattenham Corner & Preston, Reigate and Banstead, KT18 5TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012450000172
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 240
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
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
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 April 2016.
Slight
Alfa Romeo 159 crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead, 9 April 2016
4 m awayRef 2016450061546
Slight
Car crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead, 22 July 1989
4 m awayRef 198901ZP00793
Fatal
Yamaha crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead, 2 August 1993
6 m awayRef 199301ZP00734
Slight
Hyundai Pony crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 1 March 1996
6 m awayRef 199601ZP00251
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead, 5 November 1995
6 m awayRef 199501ZP01072
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A240 in Reigate and Banstead, 4 January 2003
9 m awayRef 200345SR32449
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 59 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Toyota Yaris
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,329 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Toyota Yaris)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 2012450000172 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 2012.