A322 crash in Surrey Heath on 1 July 2021 at 23:30 involving a Mercedes C Class
A Mercedes C Class crashed on the A322 in Surrey Heath at 23:30 on Thursday 1 July 2021. The 64-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Jul 2021
- Thursday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Mercedes C Class
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35239, longitude -0.66199, in the GU18 postcode district. It is one of the crashes that make up the Lightwater, Surrey Heath, GU18 5RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2021451062196
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 322
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dry
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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 June 1984.
Slight
Car crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 22 June 1984
11 m awayRef 198445CA00209
Serious
Car crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 21 June 1985
13 m awayRef 198545NC00246
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 1 November 2022
13 m awayRef 2022451236648
Serious
Nissan Qashqai crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 11 March 2018
14 m awayRef 2018450275060
Serious
Suzuki Swift crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 30 September 2017
14 m awayRef 2017450227051
Slight
Fiat Punto crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 29 May 2003
21 m awayRef 200345SR38050
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Mercedes C Class
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 64 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,143 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 64, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Mercedes C Class)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2021451062196 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 2021.