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Serious A321 crash in Surrey Heath on 9 November 1979 at 23:28 involving a car

A car crashed on the A321 in Surrey Heath at 23:28 on Friday 9 November 1979. The 37-year-old female driver was seriously injured and a 15-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet roundabout with a 30 mph limit.

Severity
Serious
Date
9 Nov 1979
Friday, 23:28
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32555, longitude -0.7548, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley.

Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197945CA00428
Council area
Surrey Heath
Police force
Surrey

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
321
Road type
Roundabout
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
Not at junction or within 20 metres
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
Other
Road surface
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1988.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Hit object in carriageway
    Central island of roundabout
    Leaving the carriageway
    Straight ahead at junction
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    37 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Female, aged 37, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Female, aged 15, 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 197945CA00428 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.