Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne on 31 December 1979 at 09:00 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 09:00 on Monday 31 December 1979. The 19-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight on a snow-covered road with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 31 Dec 1979
- Monday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197901LVJAY00
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, 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 197901LVJAY00 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.