M23 crash in Tandridge on 16 December 2020 at 00:45 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Volkswagen Crafter van were involved in a crash on the M23 in Tandridge at 00:45 on Wednesday 16 December 2020. The 48-year-old male driver of the Volkswagen Crafter van was 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- Wednesday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Volkswagen Crafter
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.26768, longitude -0.13066, in the RH1 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2020451007350
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 23
- 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
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 25
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
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 27 September 2001.
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the M23 in Tandridge, 27 September 2001
3 m awayRef 200145ME12201
Slight
Lorry crash on the M23 in Tandridge, 9 January 1989
8 m awayRef 198945ER00012
Fatal
Car crash on the M23 in Tandridge, 29 December 1990
17 m awayRef 199045ER00558
Serious
Mercedes crash on the M23 in Reigate and Banstead, 5 January 1999
20 m awayRef 199945EM00004
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the M23 in Reigate and Banstead, 21 May 2010
20 m awayRef 201045RE50704
Slight
Vehicle crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 15 January 2004
23 m awayRef 200445TA48133
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Cleared junction or waiting or parked at junction exit
- Hit object in carriageway
- Road works
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 13 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Vehicle 2: Volkswagen Crafter
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Mid-junction, on roundabout or on main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,968 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% most deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, van occupant, in vehicle 2 (Volkswagen Crafter)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2020451007350 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 2020.