M25 crash in Tandridge on 15 December 2017 at 08:52 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A lorry and a Volkswagen Polo were involved in a crash on the M25 in Tandridge at 08:52 on Friday 15 December 2017. The 49-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with unlit street lights in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 15 Dec 2017
- Friday, 08:52
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and Volkswagen Polo
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25808, longitude -0.07378, in the RH9 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Godstone, Tandridge, RH9 8AX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450249582
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- 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
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights unlit
- Weather
- Raining, 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 July 1987.
Slight
Lorry crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 29 July 1987
5 m awayRef 198745EC00224
Serious
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 16 November 2018
8 m awayRef 2018450801576
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 6 May 1991
8 m awayRef 199145EC00133
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 27 June 2019
9 m awayRef 2019450851824
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 4 July 1996
17 m awayRef 199645EM00093
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M25 in Tandridge, 16 June 2007
17 m awayRef 200745TA05489
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle 7.5 tonnes and over
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,198 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 49, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2017450249582 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 2017.