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Serious A30 crash in Runnymede on 16 August 1979 at 16:50 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the A30 in Runnymede at 16:50 on Thursday 16 August 1979. The 24-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight in fine but windy weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 60 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
16 Aug 1979
Thursday, 16:50
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43452, longitude -0.53576, in the TW18 postcode district.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197945AD00241
Council area
Runnymede
Police force
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
30
Road type
One way street or slip road
Speed limit
60 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Fine with high winds
Road surface
Dry
Special conditions at the site
Road surface defective
Carriageway hazards
Poor or defective road surface

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 18 March 1987.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Leaving the carriageway
    Offside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Nearside or offside crash barrier
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    24 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 24, 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 197945AD00241 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.