A3046 crash in Woking on 13 December 1979 at 17:20 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A3046 in Woking at 17:20 on Thursday 13 December 1979. The 50-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1979
- Thursday, 17:20
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33475, longitude -0.5754, in the GU21 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Woking
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945CD00387
- Council area
- Woking
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3046
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 June 1988.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3046 in Woking, 6 June 1988
At the same spotRef 198845NW00234
Slight
Honda SH 125 crash on the A3046 in Woking, 1 October 2023
6 m awayRef 2023451358782
Slight
Peugeot 2008 crash on the A3046 in Woking, 21 October 2016
6 m awayRef 2016450119033
Serious
Car crash on the A3046 in Woking, 3 March 1989
10 m awayRef 198945NW00104
Slight
Car crash on the A3046 in Woking, 7 December 1979
10 m awayRef 197945CD00375
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3046 in Woking, 11 November 1982
10 m awayRef 198245CD00378
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
Motorcycle 50cc and under
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 57 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 50, motorcyclist (50cc and under), 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 197945CD00387 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.