The woman in white of the A22 follows this register's now-familiar pattern of the roadside phantom pedestrian, recorded at several other Surrey and Kent sites including Blue Bell Hill's Suzanne Browne, generating genuinely dangerous evasive driving reactions from real, startled motorists rather than remaining a passive sighting glimpsed at a safe distance. Her white clothing, the most common single colour attributed to this archetype across the wider register, gives her no more specific identity than the label itself, an anonymous figure defined entirely by her colour and her dangerous position on the road.
The two variant behaviours reported, sometimes simply standing at the roadside, sometimes actively running directly into the path of an oncoming vehicle, suggest either two somewhat different sightings conflated into one general tradition, or a single figure whose behaviour genuinely varies unpredictably between encounters. The comparatively recent dating, reports specifically situated in the 2000s, makes this one of this register's more contemporarily documented road hauntings, close enough to the present that witnesses could, in principle, still be found and interviewed directly.
No name, originating tragedy, or specific incident behind the haunting has been traced in the sources consulted for this entry, and she is recorded here as a genuinely current but otherwise unexplained local road tradition, another entry in Surrey and Kent's shared collection of dangerous phantom figures that keep turning up directly in the path of moving traffic.
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