M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 18 November 2012 at 07:21 involving a Ford Transit van
A van and a Ford Transit van were involved in a crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 07:21 on Sunday 18 November 2012. The 26-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 2012
- Sunday, 07:21
- Vehicles
- 2
- Van and Ford Transit
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35853, longitude -0.65576, in the GU20 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ascot. It is one of the crashes that make up the Windlesham & Chobham, Surrey Heath, GU20 6DD area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012450000807
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 2006.
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 2 November 2006
14 m awayRef 200645SU94812
Serious
Lorry crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 17 August 1988
16 m awayRef 198845NC00349
Serious
BMW 3 Series crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 28 March 1990
16 m awayRef 199045NC00129
Slight
Van crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 7 June 1988
16 m awayRef 198845NC00242
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 30 June 2007
19 m awayRef 200745SU06442
Serious
Honda CBR600RR crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 11 April 2014
22 m awayRef 2014450014780
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit)
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 2012450000807 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 2012.