A24 crash in Mole Valley on 18 April 2012 at 09:05 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Honda Accord were involved in a crash on the A24 in Mole Valley at 09:05 on Wednesday 18 April 2012. The 50-year-old female driver of the Honda Accord was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Apr 2012
- Wednesday, 09:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Honda Accord
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2343, longitude -0.32237, in the RH5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dorking. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dorking North, Mole Valley, RH4 1JY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 201245MO69844
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining with 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 slight injury crash on 13 September 2010.
Slight
Ford Mondeo crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 13 September 2010
At the same spotRef 201045MO54393
Slight
Iveco-Ford crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 3 June 1991
14 m awayRef 199145ED00162
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 20 February 1981
14 m awayRef 198145GK00032
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 13 November 1992
20 m awayRef 199245ED00407
Slight
Rover 800 Series crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 20 May 2004
20 m awayRef 200445MO52948
Slight
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 22 January 1981
22 m awayRef 198145GK00016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Vehicle 2: Honda Accord
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 50 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Honda Accord)
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 201245MO69844 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 2012.