A325 crash in Waverley on 1 March 1979 at 09:00 involving a lorry
A lorry and two cars were involved in a crash on the A325 in Waverley at 09:00 on Thursday 1 March 1979. All four casualties were slightly injured. One of them was a pedestrian.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Mar 1979
- Thursday, 09:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Lorry and 2 others
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.21487, longitude -0.79917, in the GU9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Farnham.
Map of where the crash happened in Waverley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945FD00041
- Council area
- Waverley
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 325
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 287
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 19 April 1999.
Slight
Optare Metrorider crash on the A325 in Waverley, 19 April 1999
At the same spotRef 199945WF00163
Serious
Car crash on the A325 in Waverley, 17 November 2013
5 m awayRef 2013450010713
Slight
Peugeot 108 crash on the A325 in Waverley, 16 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025451603763
Slight
Car crash on the A325 in Waverley, 25 June 1983
10 m awayRef 198345FD00146
Slight
Car crash on the A325 in Waverley, 14 December 2019
11 m awayRef 2019450909701
Slight
Bus crash on the A287 in Waverley, 12 January 1979
14 m awayRef 197945FD00007
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Overturned
- Hit object in carriageway
- Bollard or refuge
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn left
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 31, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 3, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 58, hit by vehicle 1 (Lorry)
- Pedestrian location
- On footway or verge
- Pedestrian movement
- Walking along in carriageway, facing traffic
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 197945FD00041 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Waverley road accident statistics for 1979.