B3015 crash in Surrey Heath on 8 February 1979 at 21:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath at 21:40 on Thursday 8 February 1979. An 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 8 Feb 1979
- Thursday, 21:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.34563, longitude -0.70716, in the GU15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945CA00054
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3015
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 December 2024.
Slight
Kia Sportage crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 20 December 2024
9 m awayRef 2024451533037
Slight
Car crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 4 July 2006
10 m awayRef 200645SU88397
Slight
Audi Q5 crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 13 June 2012
10 m awayRef 201245SU71116
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 16 April 2002
10 m awayRef 200245RS20874
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 17 December 1985
22 m awayRef 198545NC00576
Slight
Car crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 16 August 1979
32 m awayRef 197945CA00291
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 197945CA00054 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1979.