A320 crash in Runnymede on 17 December 2012 at 23:42 involving a Vauxhall Astra
A Vauxhall Astra crashed on the A320 in Runnymede at 23:42 on Monday 17 December 2012. The 21-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2012
- Monday, 23:42
- Vehicles
- 1
- Vauxhall Astra
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.38082, longitude -0.52034, in the KT16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Longcross, Lyne & Chertsey South, Runnymede, KT16 9PW area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2012450001455
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 320
- 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
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 2013.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 19 April 2013
1 m awayRef 2013450005386
Serious
Car crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 14 November 1988
4 m awayRef 198845NA00431
Serious
MG Metro crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 19 May 2002
4 m awayRef 200245RS22426
Slight
Car crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 10 April 1989
4 m awayRef 198945NA05157
Slight
Car crash on the A320 in Surrey Heath, 11 November 1980
4 m awayRef 198045AD00320
Slight
Peugeot Vivacity crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 1 May 2014
6 m awayRef 2014450014986
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Astra
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Vauxhall Astra)
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 2012450001455 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 2012.