Serious unclassified road crash in Woking GU21 on 28 December 2018 at 21:55 involving a Toyota Prius
A Toyota Prius and a Mazda 3 were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Woking at 21:55 on Friday 28 December 2018. The 35-year-old male driver of the Mazda 3 was seriously injured and the 30-year-old male driver of the Toyota Prius was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry one-way street with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 28 Dec 2018
- Friday, 21:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Toyota Prius and Mazda 3
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32068, longitude -0.55229, in the GU21 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woking. It is one of the crashes that make up the Canalside, Woking, GU21 6EJ area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2018450805165
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- One way street
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- 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, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 May 2008.
Slight
Toyota Avensis crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 18 May 2008
3 m awayRef 200845WO22807
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 23 April 2023
14 m awayRef 2023451299898
Slight
Mercedes B Class crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 7 January 2025
15 m awayRef 2025451540733
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 5 May 2023
17 m awayRef 2023451306334
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Woking, 7 August 2006
17 m awayRef 200645WO89910
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Woking, 7 November 1979
17 m awayRef 197945CD00342
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Prius
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,797 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 8 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Mazda 3
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 11 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota Prius)
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 35, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mazda 3)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most 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 2018450805165 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 2018.