C road crash in Runnymede KT16 on 13 July 1979 at 13:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on a C road in Runnymede at 13:40 on Friday 13 July 1979. The 19-year-old male rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Jul 1979
- Friday, 13:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.37747, longitude -0.51142, in the KT16 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945AD00210
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Other junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 2 November 1994.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 2 November 1994
20 m awayRef 199445NM00164
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the M25 in Runnymede, 17 June 1993
20 m awayRef 199345NA00263
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Runnymede, 29 September 1983
20 m awayRef 198345AD00287
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Runnymede, 21 March 1989
20 m awayRef 198945NA05125
Serious
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Runnymede, 28 March 2007
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
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 197945AD00210 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1979.