A3 crash in Guildford on 14 May 2018 at 12:00 involving a Kia Soul
A Kia Soul and a Volkswagen Passat were involved in a crash on the A3 in Guildford at 12:00 on Monday 14 May 2018. The 35-year-old female driver of the Kia Soul and a 25-year-old male passenger in the Kia Soul were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 14 May 2018
- Monday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Kia Soul and Volkswagen Passat
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30957, longitude -0.47196, in the GU23 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Send & Lovelace, Guildford, GU23 6QB area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450295644
- 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
- 3
- 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
- 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 April 2007.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A3 in Guildford, 14 April 2007
6 m awayRef 200745GU02196
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 17 October 1981
16 m awayRef 198145CD00312
Slight
Volvo 440 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 26 October 2001
37 m awayRef 200145MW13518
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 2 June 2008
37 m awayRef 200845GU23498
Slight
Toyota Space Cruiser crash on the A3 in Guildford, 19 November 1999
40 m awayRef 199945WG00678
Slight
Skoda Fabia crash on the A3 in Guildford, 15 May 2018
44 m awayRef 2018450293473
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Kia Soul
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside onto central reservation and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Central crash barrier
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,582 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Passat
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
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 51 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Soul)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Kia Soul)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2018450295644 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 2018.