Serious A24 crash in Mole Valley on 9 September 2016 at 06:14 involving a Mini Cooper
A Mini Cooper crashed on the A24 in Mole Valley at 06:14 on Friday 9 September 2016. The 35-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 9 Sep 2016
- Friday, 06:14
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.12831, longitude -0.32567, in the RH5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450104917
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- 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, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 October 2011.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 2 October 2011
3 m awayRef 201145MO64552
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 26 October 1990
3 m awayRef 199045ED00484
Slight
Volkswagen UP crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 26 September 2019
34 m awayRef 2019450881344
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 24 January 2018
39 m awayRef 2018450262225
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 20 March 1998
42 m awayRef 199845ED00095
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 21 December 2025
46 m awayRef 2025451686950
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mini Cooper)
- Serious injury band
- Very serious
- 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 2016450104917 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2016.