Serious A3 crash in Guildford on 19 February 2023 at 08:19 involving a Toyota
A Toyota crashed on the A3 in Guildford at 08:19 on Sunday 19 February 2023. The 22-year-old male driver and a 19-year-old male passenger were seriously injured and a 15-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 19 Feb 2023
- Sunday, 08:19
- Vehicles
- 1
- Toyota
- Casualties
- 3
- 2 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25601, longitude -0.55731, in the GU4 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2023451278020
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- 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
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 September 2022.
Slight
Honda Civic crash on the A3 in Guildford, 8 September 2022
14 m awayRef 2022451216961
Serious
Car crash on the A3 in Guildford, 15 April 1983
28 m awayRef 198345GD00138
Slight
Ford KA crash on the A3 in Guildford, 21 September 2010
30 m awayRef 201045GU53952
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A3 in Guildford, 19 September 2013
41 m awayRef 2013450009372
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A3 in Guildford, 12 January 1998
50 m awayRef 199845WG00016
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A3 in Guildford, 14 February 1989
54 m awayRef 198945WG00061
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Toyota
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Entered ditch
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,360 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Hybrid electric
- Vehicle age
- 16 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 15, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% most deprived
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Toyota)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Less serious
- Home area deprivation
- 30 to 40% 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 2023451278020 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 2023.