Unclassified road crash in Woking GU22 on 29 August 2017 at 13:01 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class, a Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Sharan taxi were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Woking at 13:01 on Tuesday 29 August 2017. A 27-year-old female passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Aug 2017
- Tuesday, 13:01
- Vehicles
- 3
- Mercedes C Class and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.31488, longitude -0.56074, in the GU22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woking. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canalside, Woking, GU21 6EJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Woking
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450217259
- Council area
- Woking
- 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
- 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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 April 1994.
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A320 in Woking, 27 April 1994
9 m awayRef 199445NW00115
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Woking, 1 October 1994
9 m awayRef 199445NW00263
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Woking, 19 January 1989
11 m awayRef 198945NW00027
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Woking, 12 March 1983
11 m awayRef 198345CD00069
Slight
Bus crash on a C road in Woking, 19 September 1996
25 m awayRef 199645NW00254
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A320 in Woking, 1 November 1988
37 m awayRef 198845NW00469
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,987 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Moving off
- 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,560 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
Vehicle 3: Volkswagen Sharan
Taxi or private hire car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 2017450217259 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 2017.