A3 crash in Guildford on 28 February 2017 at 19:09 involving a Toyota GT86
A Toyota GT86 crashed on the A3 in Guildford at 19:09 on Tuesday 28 February 2017. The 35-year-old female driver and a 53-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 28 Feb 2017
- Tuesday, 19:09
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota GT86
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.27019, longitude -0.52919, in the GU23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Burpham, Guildford, GU4 7LJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450160199
- 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
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Trunk road (National Highways)
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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, 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 16 May 2023.
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BMW 1 Series crash on the A3 in Guildford, 16 May 2023
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Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 11 September 2013
3 m awayRef 2013450009180
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A3 in Guildford, 10 February 2017
8 m awayRef 2017450162770
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Peugeot 206 crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 23 December 2013
8 m awayRef 2013450012045
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Vauxhall Astra crash on the A3 in Guildford, 6 July 2025
9 m awayRef 2025451612326
Slight
Peugeot 208 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 9 March 2020
10 m awayRef 2020450938334
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota GT86
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Straight ahead at junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota GT86)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 53, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota GT86)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- 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 2017450160199 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.