B3000 crash in Guildford on 12 December 2018 at 18:00 involving an Audi A6
An Audi A6 and a BMW 3 Series were involved in a crash on the B3000 in Guildford at 18:00 on Wednesday 12 December 2018. The 46-year-old male driver of the Audi A6 and the 35-year-old male driver of the BMW 3 Series were slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 12 Dec 2018
- Wednesday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A6 and BMW 3 Series
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21853, longitude -0.65542, in the GU3 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450803550
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3000
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 1 metre away, was a serious injury crash on 21 August 1998.
Serious
Rover 100 Series crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 21 August 1998
1 m awayRef 199845WG00511
Slight
Mercedes crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 29 June 1999
11 m awayRef 199945WG00365
Serious
Car crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 31 December 1986
28 m awayRef 198645WF00383
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 17 September 2003
42 m awayRef 200345RW42502
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 24 February 1998
42 m awayRef 199845WG00111
Slight
Peugeot Partner crash on the B3000 in Guildford, 11 June 2004
64 m awayRef 200445GU54486
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A6
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Vehicle 2: BMW 3 Series
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Commuting to or from work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,995 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 14 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 46, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Audi A6)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (BMW 3 Series)
- 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 2018450803550 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.