Unclassified road crash in Guildford GU2 on 22 September 1979 at 18:30 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Guildford at 18:30 on Saturday 22 September 1979. A 61-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Sep 1979
- Saturday, 18:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.25293, longitude -0.5914, in the GU2 postcode district and within the built-up area of Guildford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945GD00328
- Council area
- Guildford
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 322
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, 14 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 18 December 2018.
Serious
Mini Cooper crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 18 December 2018
14 m awayRef 2018450804013
Slight
Car crash on the A322 in Guildford, 20 August 1982
14 m awayRef 198245GD00295
Serious
Van crash on the A322 in Guildford, 23 July 1992
14 m awayRef 199245WG00268
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the A322 in Guildford, 15 December 2020
15 m awayRef 2020451007078
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A322 in Guildford, 24 February 2015
16 m awayRef 2015450022258
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A322 in Guildford, 17 March 2020
19 m awayRef 2020450940742
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 61, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 197945GD00328 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 1979.