M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 25 June 1979 at 19:18 involving a car
A car crashed on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 19:18 on Monday 25 June 1979. The 25-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 25 Jun 1979
- Monday, 19:18
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36796, longitude -0.63068, in the GU24 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945CA00225
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 5 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 September 2016.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 4 September 2016
5 m awayRef 2016450107361
Serious
Ford C-Max crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 5 September 2021
14 m awayRef 2021451083934
Slight
Triumph Sprint RS crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 27 June 2006
20 m awayRef 200645SU87820
Slight
Audi SQ5 crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 8 June 2023
21 m awayRef 2023451316553
Slight
Citroen ZX crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 24 September 2003
22 m awayRef 200345SR43034
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 6 January 2001
22 m awayRef 2001450000158
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 25 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 197945CA00225 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.