A3 crash in Guildford on 19 November 2018 at 06:20 involving a Ford Transit Custom van
A goods vehicle, a Ford Transit Custom van and a Honda CRV were involved in a crash on the A3 in Guildford at 06:20 on Monday 19 November 2018. The 56-year-old female driver of the Honda CRV and the 55-year-old male driver of the Ford Transit Custom van were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Nov 2018
- Monday, 06:20
- Vehicles
- 3
- Ford Transit Custom and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30697, longitude -0.4772, 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
- 2018450801868
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 October 2014.
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A3 in Guildford, 28 October 2014
5 m awayRef 2014450019339
Slight
Porsche Boxster crash on the A3 in Guildford, 19 April 2012
13 m awayRef 201245GU69928
Slight
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 27 September 1988
23 m awayRef 198845NW00406
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A3 in Guildford, 8 December 2023
27 m awayRef 2023451384376
Serious
Honda CRV crash on the A3 in Guildford, 6 December 2011
30 m awayRef 201145GU66680
Serious
Audi S4 crash on the A3 in Guildford, 22 January 2010
39 m awayRef 201045GU48317
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Goods vehicle
Goods vehicle, weight unknown
- Manoeuvre
- Changing lane to right
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- Yes
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Ford Transit Custom
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going 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
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 0 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Honda CRV
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 56 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,204 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 56, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Honda CRV)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 55, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Transit Custom)
- 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 2018450801868 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.