Serious C road crash in Reigate and Banstead CR5 on 12 May 2013 at 07:12 involving a Ford Galaxy
A Ford Galaxy and a Volkswagen Transporter van were involved in a crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead at 07:12 on Sunday 12 May 2013. The 26-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter van was seriously injured and the 35-year-old female driver of the Ford Galaxy was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 May 2013
- Sunday, 07:12
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Galaxy and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30133, longitude -0.1704, in the CR5 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Chipstead, Kingswood & Woodmansterne, Reigate and Banstead, CR5 3QX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013450005995
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 25 March 2018.
Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 25 March 2018
4 m awayRef 2018450283884
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 11 January 1983
5 m awayRef 1983010ZP0031
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 7 June 1994
14 m awayRef 199401ZP00566
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 13 November 2025
16 m awayRef 2025451668170
Slight
Minibus crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 25 July 1982
19 m awayRef 1982010ZP0851
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 15 September 2005
34 m awayRef 200545RE73380
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Galaxy
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Galaxy)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 26, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
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 2013450005995 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 2013.