Unclassified road crash in Woking GU22 on 23 April 1979 at 19:00 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle crashed on an unclassified road in Woking at 19:00 on Monday 23 April 1979. The 49-year-old female rider was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Apr 1979
- Monday, 19:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Motorcycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30588, longitude -0.56797, in the GU22 postcode district and within the built-up area of Woking.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945CD00125
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
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The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 February 2015.
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Serious
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 49 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightFemale, aged 49, 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 197945CD00125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Woking road accident statistics for 1979.