A320 crash in Runnymede on 17 December 2017 at 07:35 involving a BMW 5 Series
A BMW 5 Series and a Volkswagen Transporter were involved in a crash on the A320 in Runnymede at 07:35 on Sunday 17 December 2017. The 41-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Transporter was slightly injured.
It happened after dark in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Dec 2017
- Sunday, 07:35
- Vehicles
- 2
- BMW 5 Series and Volkswagen Transporter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3682, longitude -0.52994, in the KT16 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ottershaw, Runnymede, KT16 0HW area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Runnymede
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2017450251680
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 320
- 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
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 2007.
Slight
Honda CBF600SA crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 9 March 2007
11 m awayRef 200745RU00413
Slight
Peugeot 106 crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 26 September 1995
19 m awayRef 199545NA00426
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 9 September 1999
25 m awayRef 199945NA00351
Slight
Seat Leon crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 7 April 2014
28 m awayRef 2014450014621
Serious
Car crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 31 January 1980
28 m awayRef 198045AD00031
Slight
Hyundai Ioniq crash on the A320 in Runnymede, 9 March 2023
29 m awayRef 2023451284878
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: BMW 5 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- 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
- 28 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Transporter
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
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 41, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Transporter)
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 2017450251680 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 2017.