Traffic caused by a crash in Oxshott on Monday has driven home the issue about M25 diversions through the village.
A head-on accident on a blind bend in Warren Drive on June 16 left one car severely damaged.
Nobody was seriously hurt, but East Coast Ambulance Service attended after receiving an emergency call shortly before 5.10pm.
A spokesman said: “We did respond with a clinician in a single ambulance.
“One man was potentially injured and suffering from shock. But he didn’t require treatment and was not taken to hospital.”
Traffic diverted via Oxshott Medical Practice quickly built up, worsened by rush hour traffic using the village as a rat run to avoid M25 queues.
Oxshott resident Guy Carter criticised the choice of diversions and said: “The fact that traffic is flooding off the M25 on to a small A244 road that is now blocked, and that the diversion is being effected via three unclassified country lanes - and residential - should lead Surrey County Council (SCC) to say enough is enough and reclassify our village.
“During the Olympic road cycling they want viewers to say Surrey is a nice rural place to live - not showing them the truth that we are little more than an overflow for the M25.
“We were benefitted with a cash payment for the noise and additional traffic we suffered during the M25 widening scheme. SCC should be benefitting us similarly for the constant noise, pollution and general aggravation that its woefully inept road strategy causes.”