B2208 crash in Tandridge on 24 November 1979 at 22:10 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on the B2208 in Tandridge at 22:10 on Saturday 24 November 1979. The 22-year-old male rider and a 22-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Nov 1979
- Saturday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.28458, longitude -0.07921, 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
- 197945BC00318
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 2208
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 8 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 14 October 2017.
Serious
Peugeot 307 crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 14 October 2017
8 m awayRef 2017450233139
Slight
Car crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 8 November 1998
10 m awayRef 199845EC00363
Slight
Mazda crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 4 June 1999
10 m awayRef 199945EC00160
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 3 September 1996
20 m awayRef 199645EC00296
Slight
Car crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 9 December 1991
22 m awayRef 199145EC00379
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B2208 in Tandridge, 17 June 2005
22 m awayRef 200545TA69500
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 22, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 197945BC00318 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.