A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 17 December 2015 at 15:58 involving a Vauxhall Corsa
A Vauxhall Corsa and a Volkswagen Caddy van were involved in a crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 15:58 on Thursday 17 December 2015. The 58-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Caddy van was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2015
- Thursday, 15:58
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Corsa and Volkswagen Caddy
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33711, longitude -0.75664, 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
- 2015450038040
- 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
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 October 2016.
Slight
BMW X1 crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 8 October 2016
2 m awayRef 2016450114538
Serious
Van crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 15 August 2014
2 m awayRef 2014450017528
Slight
Volkswagen Passat crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 14 August 2014
3 m awayRef 2014450017617
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: Vauxhall Corsa
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to left
- Travelling from
- North East
- 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
- 20 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,199 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Caddy
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 58 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,896 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 58, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Caddy)
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 2015450038040 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 2015.