A247 crash in Guildford on 6 July 2016 at 22:30 involving a Ford Fiesta
A Ford Fiesta and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the A247 in Guildford at 22:30 on Wednesday 6 July 2016. A 19-year-old male passenger in the Ford Fiesta was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 6 Jul 2016
- Wednesday, 22:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Fiesta and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26091, longitude -0.50348, in the GU4 postcode district and within the built-up area of West Clandon.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450084744
- 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
- 247
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 19 August 2020.
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on the A274 in Guildford, 19 August 2020
4 m awayRef 2020450973951
Slight
Nissan Murano crash on the A247 in Guildford, 8 April 2015
4 m awayRef 2015450023824
Slight
Car crash on the A247 in Guildford, 6 September 1981
6 m awayRef 198145GD00329
Serious
Car crash on the A247 in Guildford, 26 October 1982
6 m awayRef 198245GL00216
Slight
Car crash on the A247 in Guildford, 12 January 1979
6 m awayRef 197945GD00067
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A247 in Guildford, 12 March 1997
8 m awayRef 199745WG00149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Fiesta
Car
- 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
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,242 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 71 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,895 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Fiesta)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2016450084744 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.