Unclassified road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH6 on 31 December 2025 at 10:48 involving a Ford Ecosport
A Ford Ecosport and a Ford Focus were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead at 10:48 on Wednesday 31 December 2025. The 89-year-old female driver of the Ford Focus was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 2025
- Wednesday, 10:48
- Vehicles
- 2
- Ford Ecosport and Ford Focus
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16668, longitude -0.16859, in the RH6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Horley. It is one of the crashes that make up the Horley Central & South, Reigate and Banstead, RH6 7LY area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2025451689758
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- 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
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- 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
- Frost or ice
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, 35 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 3 March 2011.
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 3 March 2011
35 m awayRef 201145RE58819
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 12 November 2023
52 m awayRef 2023451373604
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 11 November 1980
106 m awayRef 198045BD00411
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 1 July 2001
114 m awayRef 200145ME08092
Serious
Honda SGX50 crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 26 June 2002
134 m awayRef 200245RE23797
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Reigate and Banstead, 16 August 1979
141 m awayRef 197945BD00306
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Ford Ecosport
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Engine capacity
- 998 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
Vehicle 2: Ford Focus
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Personal business or leisure
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 89 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,596 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Driver home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% most deprived
- Distance from driver's home
- Within 5 km
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 89, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Ford Focus)
- Home area deprivation
- 40 to 50% 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 2025451689758 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 2025.