Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU2 on 26 December 2015 at 20:20 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and an Audi A4 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 20:20 on Saturday 26 December 2015. The 87-year-old male driver of the Ford Fiesta and a female passenger in the Ford Fiesta were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 Dec 2015
- Saturday, 20:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and Audi A4
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25657, longitude -0.59706, in the GU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford. It is one of the crashes that make up the Stoughton South, Guildford, GU2 9SQ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015450037656
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 103 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 23 April 2008.
Slight
Audi TT crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 23 April 2008
103 m awayRef 200845GU21537
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 11 December 1993
106 m awayRef 199345WG00782
Slight
Bristol (BLMC) crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 2 August 1994
112 m awayRef 199445WG00467
Slight
Austin Metro crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 1 April 1993
113 m awayRef 199345WG00161
Slight
Renault Clio crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 1 February 2018
127 m awayRef 2018450264978
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 10 April 1984
145 m awayRef 198445GD00119
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 87 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,388 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
Vehicle 2: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 87, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2015450037656 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.