Unclassified road crash in Tandridge RH9 on 21 May 2018 at 08:00 involving a Volkswagen Polo
A Volkswagen Polo and a car were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge at 08:00 on Monday 21 May 2018. The 17-year-old female driver of the Volkswagen Polo 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
- 21 May 2018
- Monday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Volkswagen Polo and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.23562, longitude -0.04938, in the RH9 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450297688
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 21 August 1998.
Slight
Volvo 360 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 21 August 1998
3 m awayRef 199845EC00260
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 2 December 1997
3 m awayRef 199745EC00406
Slight
Renault 19 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 3 November 1998
3 m awayRef 199845EC00355
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 19 July 2025
10 m awayRef 2025451618673
Slight
Mazda MX-5 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 30 September 2001
12 m awayRef 200145ME13059
Slight
Yamaha YZF R6 crash on the A22 in Tandridge, 11 September 2009
16 m awayRef 200945TA43746
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Polo
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 17 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,197 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 2: 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
- Did not impact
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Polo)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% 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 2018450297688 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.