B3000 crash in Guildford on 29 August 2013 at 20:00 involving a Harley-Davidson XL 1200 motorcycle
A Harley-Davidson XL 1200 motorcycle and a Mercedes ML Class were involved in a crash on the B3000 in Guildford at 20:00 on Thursday 29 August 2013. The 40-year-old male rider of the Harley-Davidson XL 1200 motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2013
- Thursday, 20:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Harley-Davidson XL 1200 and Mercedes ML Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22636, longitude -0.66299, in the GU3 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Pilgrims, Guildford, GU3 1AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2013450008585
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3000
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 11 August 2025.
Serious
Volkswagen Transporter crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 11 August 2025
1 m awayRef 2025451627358
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 26 March 2025
2 m awayRef 2025451569779
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 12 March 1995
3 m awayRef 199545WG00126
Slight
Toyota RAV4 crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 18 January 2024
3 m awayRef 2024451400049
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 1 October 2017
6 m awayRef 2017450227056
Slight
Audi 80 crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 8 January 1993
7 m awayRef 199345WG00016
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Harley-Davidson XL 1200
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,200 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes ML Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 62 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,688 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 1 (Harley-Davidson XL 1200)
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 2013450008585 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2013.