A322 crash in Guildford on 13 July 2017 at 12:30 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series and a Mercedes E Class were involved in a crash on the A322 in Guildford at 12:30 on Thursday 13 July 2017. The 37-year-old female driver of the BMW 3 Series was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 2017
- Thursday, 12:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 3 Series and Mercedes E Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28152, longitude -0.61755, in the GU3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Worplesdon. It is one of the crashes that make up the Worplesdon, Guildford, GU3 3PL area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450206833
- 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
- 322
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 19 March 1998.
Slight
Bus crash on the A322 in Guildford, 19 March 1998
8 m awayRef 199845WG00206
Slight
Vauxhall Grandland crash on the A322 in Guildford, 29 August 2025
10 m awayRef 2025451634810
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A322 in Guildford, 28 July 2018
14 m awayRef 2018450314410
Serious
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A322 in Guildford, 4 November 1994
15 m awayRef 199445WG00660
Serious
Ford crash on the A322 in Guildford, 2 September 1994
15 m awayRef 199445WG00508
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A322 in Guildford, 1 July 1998
16 m awayRef 199845WG00402
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- 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
- 37 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
Vehicle 2: Mercedes E Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 45 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 1 year
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
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 2017450206833 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.