B2031 crash in Tandridge on 5 October 1979 at 23:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B2031 in Tandridge at 23:45 on Friday 5 October 1979. The 40-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 and the 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1979
- Friday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2846, longitude -0.0967, in the CR3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Caterham.
Map of where the crash happened in Tandridge
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945BC00259
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2031
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 2 May 1991.
Slight
Van crash on the B2031 in Tandridge, 2 May 1991
At the same spotRef 199145EC00128
Slight
Volkswagen Touran crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 7 December 2020
5 m awayRef 2020451009813
Fatal
Car crash on the B2031 in Tandridge, 16 November 1990
10 m awayRef 199045EC00372
Slight
Car crash on the B2031 in Tandridge, 4 July 1987
10 m awayRef 198745EC00189
Slight
Toyota C-HR crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 24 July 2025
13 m awayRef 2025451620513
Slight
Fiat Brava crash on the B2031 in Tandridge, 8 December 2009
14 m awayRef 200945RE47149
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 30, 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 197945BC00259 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 1979.