Serious A24 crash in Mole Valley on 24 September 2019 at 08:10 involving a Toyota Avensis
A Toyota Avensis, a Volkswagen Eos and a Nissan Qashqai were involved in a crash on the A24 in Mole Valley at 08:10 on Tuesday 24 September 2019. A 9-year-old male passenger in the Nissan Qashqai was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 24 Sep 2019
- Tuesday, 08:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Toyota Avensis and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21849, longitude -0.32136, in the RH4 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dorking. It is one of the crashes that make up the Dorking South, Mole Valley, RH4 2NT area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2019450880539
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 24
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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, 4 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 28 November 2025.
Slight
Hyundai Santa Fe crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 28 November 2025
4 m awayRef 2025451675199
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 4 December 1985
16 m awayRef 198545ED00410
Serious
Toyota C-HR crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 12 April 2025
16 m awayRef 2025451578310
Serious
Car crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 6 September 1983
48 m awayRef 198345GK00144
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Mole Valley, 7 February 1984
75 m awayRef 198445GK00026
Serious
Bicycle crash on the A24 in Mole Valley, 24 November 1998
80 m awayRef 199845ED00419
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Toyota Avensis
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
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 39 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,231 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Eos
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 27 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% least deprived
Vehicle 3: Nissan Qashqai
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
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 30 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,461 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 7 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 9, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (Nissan Qashqai)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% 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 2019450880539 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 2019.