A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 14 August 2014 at 14:20 involving a Volkswagen Passat
A Volkswagen Passat and a car were involved in a crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 14:20 on Thursday 14 August 2014. The 40-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Passat and the 20-year-old male driver of the car were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Aug 2014
- Thursday, 14:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Passat and car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33705, longitude -0.75668, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley. It is one of the crashes that make up the St Michaels, Surrey Heath, GU15 3QL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2014450017617
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- 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
- 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
- Wet or damp
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 8 October 2016.
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 8 October 2016
1 m awayRef 2016450114538
Serious
Van crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 15 August 2014
1 m awayRef 2014450017528
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 December 2015
3 m awayRef 2015450038040
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 7 May 2011
4 m awayRef 201145SU60896
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 23 January 2006
4 m awayRef 200645SU79911
Serious
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 29 September 1988
4 m awayRef 198845NC00437
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Passat
Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Passat)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
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 2014450017617 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 2014.