A245 crash in Mole Valley on 13 December 2016 at 17:25 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on the A245 in Mole Valley at 17:25 on Tuesday 13 December 2016. A 24-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 2016
- Tuesday, 17:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30058, longitude -0.33987, in the KT22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Leatherhead. It is one of the crashes that make up the Leatherhead North, Mole Valley, KT22 7BA area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450138533
- 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
- 245
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Human crossing control by other authorised person
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 December 2013.
Slight
Suzuki GZ 125 crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 10 December 2013
1 m awayRef 2013450011446
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 15 November 2001
3 m awayRef 200145EM14337
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 9 November 1995
3 m awayRef 199545ED00385
Serious
Car crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 4 March 1983
3 m awayRef 198345GL00033
Slight
Peugeot 407 crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 17 July 2009
3 m awayRef 200945MO41359
Slight
Audi A4 crash on the A245 in Mole Valley, 16 December 2005
3 m awayRef 200545MO78281
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 24, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most 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 2016450138533 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.