Serious A22 crash in Tandridge on 2 April 2018 at 21:35 involving a BMW 3 Series
A BMW 3 Series crashed on the A22 in Tandridge at 21:35 on Monday 2 April 2018. An 18-year-old male passenger was seriously injured and the 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 2 Apr 2018
- Monday, 21:35
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1512, longitude -0.04789, in the RH19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Newchapel.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450281092
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 22
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
Enhanced collision data
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 100%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 0%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 7 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 December 1992.
Slight
Zastava Yugo crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 5 December 1992
7 m awayRef 199245EC00376
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 23 October 1992
16 m awayRef 199245EC00342
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 9 May 1981
16 m awayRef 198145BC00124
Slight
Car crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 12 January 1986
30 m awayRef 198645EC00007
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 1 March 1997
35 m awayRef 199745EC00070
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 17 February 2000
35 m awayRef 200045EC00056
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 6 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW 3 Series)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2018450281092 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 2018.