Serious unclassified road crash in Waverley GU7 on 17 September 2024 at 08:00 involving a Ford Focus
A Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Zafira were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Waverley at 08:00 on Tuesday 17 September 2024. A 12-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus was seriously injured and a 12-year-old male passenger in the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 Sep 2024
- Tuesday, 08:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Focus and Vauxhall Zafira
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.18438, longitude -0.62861, in the GU7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Godalming. It is one of the crashes that make up the Godalming Holloway, Waverley, GU7 1RN area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Waverley
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2024451493322
- Council area
- Waverley
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- No, reported using a self completion form
- Highway authority
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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
- Moderately 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, 17 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 November 1992.
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 3 November 1992
17 m awayRef 199245WO00282
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 2 October 1991
31 m awayRef 199145WO00258
Slight
Renault 11 crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 26 June 1996
32 m awayRef 199645WF00275
Slight
Nissan Sunny crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 24 June 2006
35 m awayRef 200645WA87255
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 25 March 1985
59 m awayRef 198545WO00099
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Waverley, 3 May 1997
75 m awayRef 199745WF00179
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Reversing
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Education and educational escort
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 36 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,796 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 21 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Vehicle 2: Vauxhall Zafira
Car
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Position at junction
- Leaving main road
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 35 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,364 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 9 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
- Serious injury band
- Moderately serious
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 12, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Ford Focus)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
- Home area deprivation
- 20 to 30% most deprived
- Distance from home
- Within 5 km
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 2024451493322 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waverley road accident statistics for 2024.