Unclassified road crash in Woking GU21 on 14 December 2016 at 16:45 involving a Mercedes bus
A Mercedes bus and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Woking at 16:45 on Wednesday 14 December 2016. A 50-year-old male passenger in the Mercedes bus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fog or mist on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 Dec 2016
- Wednesday, 16:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Mercedes and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31856, longitude -0.61494, in the GU21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woking. It is one of the crashes that make up the Knaphill, Woking, GU21 2AH area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Woking
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016450141381
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Fog or mist
- 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, 4 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 1 April 2012.
Serious
Yamaha XT 600 crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 1 April 2012
4 m awayRef 201245WO69406
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 27 July 1995
10 m awayRef 199545NW00218
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 4 November 1995
10 m awayRef 199545NW00306
Slight
Honda crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 20 February 1997
11 m awayRef 199745NW00049
Serious
Volvo V40 crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 2 July 2005
14 m awayRef 200545WO70035
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 16 January 2007
17 m awayRef 200745WO97919
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 6,370 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 10 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, bus or coach occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes)
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 2016450141381 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 2016.