A308 crash in Spelthorne on 29 December 1979 at 02:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A308 in Spelthorne at 02:10 on Saturday 29 December 1979. The 19-year-old male driver and a 17-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 29 Dec 1979
- Saturday, 02:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LTCCG02
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197901LTCCG02 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Spelthorne road accident statistics for 1979.