Serious M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 8 July 2022 at 17:11 involving a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
A car and a Land Rover Range Rover Evoque were involved in a crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 17:11 on Friday 8 July 2022. The 47-year-old female driver of the Land Rover Range Rover Evoque was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 8 Jul 2022
- Friday, 17:11
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33656, longitude -0.71804, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Parkside, Surrey Heath, GU15 1JJ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2022451196841
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- 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
- Daylight
- 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, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 December 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 18 December 1989
2 m awayRef 198945NC00631
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 24 October 1994
2 m awayRef 199445NC00265
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 1 May 1982
10 m awayRef 198245CA00126
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 19 June 1982
13 m awayRef 198245CA00205
Slight
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 2 June 1986
20 m awayRef 198645NC00249
Serious
Land Rover crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 17 September 1996
28 m awayRef 199645NM00111
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 41 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,284 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% least deprived
Vehicle 2: Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 47 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,999 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10% least deprived
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Land Rover Range Rover Evoque)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- 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 2022451196841 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 2022.