A323 crash in Guildford on 14 November 2016 at 21:20 involving a Vauxhall Meriva
A Vauxhall Meriva and a Volkswagen Bora were involved in a crash on the A323 in Guildford at 21:20 on Monday 14 November 2016. The 23-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Bora was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Nov 2016
- Monday, 21:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Vauxhall Meriva and Volkswagen Bora
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25505, longitude -0.68196, in the GU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Normandy. It is one of the crashes that make up the Normandy & Pirbright, Guildford, GU3 2BH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450127912
- 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
- 323
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, 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 10 March 2014.
Slight
Bicycle crash on a C road in Guildford, 10 March 2014
2 m awayRef 2014450013846
Serious
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 13 August 1987
7 m awayRef 198745WF00198
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A323 in Guildford, 2 April 1990
7 m awayRef 199045WF00091
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 17 November 1997
7 m awayRef 199745WG00714
Slight
Car crash on the A323 in Guildford, 17 December 1990
7 m awayRef 199045WF00406
Slight
Peugeot 309 crash on the A323 in Guildford, 25 November 1991
7 m awayRef 199145WF00335
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Vauxhall Meriva
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,398 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Bora
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,600 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 23, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Bora)
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2016450127912 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.