Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU1 on 31 December 2015 at 13:04 involving a Mercedes E Class
A Mercedes E Class and a Kawasaki motorcycle were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 13:04 on Thursday 31 December 2015. The 61-year-old male rider of the Kawasaki 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
- 31 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 13:04
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes E Class and Kawasaki
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2377, longitude -0.58002, in the GU1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoke, Guildford, GU1 4PT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015450037472
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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 27 September 2013.
Serious
Chrysler Voyager crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 27 September 2013
1 m awayRef 2013450009354
Slight
Suzuki DR 125 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 2 July 2013
1 m awayRef 2013450007454
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 18 August 2011
7 m awayRef 201145GU63390
Slight
Nissan Primera crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 16 January 2007
7 m awayRef 200745GU97613
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 14 November 2003
7 m awayRef 200345GU45288
Slight
Aprilia RS50 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 2 December 2007
7 m awayRef 200745GU14641
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Vehicle 2: Kawasaki
Motorcycle over 500cc
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 61 years
- Engine capacity
- 997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 27 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 61, motorcyclist (over 500cc), on vehicle 2 (Kawasaki)
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 2015450037472 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 2015.