A3 crash in Guildford on 9 February 2016 at 19:15 involving a Citroen C2
A Citroen C2 and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A3 in Guildford at 19:15 on Tuesday 9 February 2016. The 21-year-old female driver of the Citroen C2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Feb 2016
- Tuesday, 19:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Citroen C2 and Honda CRV
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26175, longitude -0.55272, in the GU4 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burpham, Guildford, GU4 7JU area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450044892
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
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, no street lighting
- 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, 1 metre away, was a slight injury crash on 10 May 2005.
Slight
Mitsubishi Galant crash on the A3 in Guildford, 10 May 2005
1 m awayRef 200545GU68019
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3 in Guildford, 22 June 1991
1 m awayRef 199145WG00219
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A3 in Guildford, 7 July 1997
10 m awayRef 199745WG00417
Slight
Peugeot 206 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 16 October 2001
19 m awayRef 200145WG12788
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 11 June 2005
22 m awayRef 200545GU69217
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A3 in Guildford, 5 December 2014
34 m awayRef 2014450020911
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Citroen C2
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 21 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,124 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,997 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Citroen C2)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
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 2016450044892 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 2016.