Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU23 on 16 January 2017 at 17:11 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Renault Clio were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 17:11 on Monday 16 January 2017. The 63-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 2017
- Monday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Renault Clio
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29495, longitude -0.51225, in the GU23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450150844
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 21 December 1983.
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 21 December 1983
9 m awayRef 198345CD00433
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 20 March 2025
18 m awayRef 2025451567442
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 22 September 2007
147 m awayRef 200745GU10940
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 2 August 2005
153 m awayRef 200545GU71233
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 27 November 1995
156 m awayRef 199545WG00662
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 15 October 1991
174 m awayRef 199145NW00384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 63 years
- Engine capacity
- 999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 2 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Renault Clio
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,149 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 15 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 63, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2017450150844 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 2017.