M25 crash in Mole Valley on 27 January 2021 at 20:51 involving a BMW X5
A BMW X5 crashed on the M25 in Mole Valley at 20:51 on Wednesday 27 January 2021. The 32-year-old male driver and a 30-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 27 Jan 2021
- Wednesday, 20:51
- Vehicles
- 1
- BMW X5
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29374, longitude -0.3034, in the KT22 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Ashtead Park, Mole Valley, KT22 8TX area accident hotspot.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021451017474
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 25
- 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
- Raining, 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, 6 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 February 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 14 February 2023
6 m awayRef 2023451276310
Slight
HGV crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 11 December 2000
7 m awayRef 200045WM00128
Slight
Renault Laguna crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 12 December 2000
9 m awayRef 200045WM00133
Slight
Mazda E2200 crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 15 June 1992
9 m awayRef 199245ED00235
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 10 September 1991
11 m awayRef 199145ED00334
Slight
Car crash on the M25 in Mole Valley, 12 September 1991
11 m awayRef 199145ED00328
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: BMW X5
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Journey as part of work
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 32 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,993 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 4 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 32, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (BMW X5)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 10% 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 2021451017474 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 2021.