C road crash in Mole Valley KT22 on 3 May 1979 at 18:38 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on a C road in Mole Valley at 18:38 on Thursday 3 May 1979. The 48-year-old male driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 May 1979
- Thursday, 18:38
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.2917, longitude -0.2952, in the KT22 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Mole Valley
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945GL00065
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 1986.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 8 January 1986
At the same spotRef 198645ED00005
Slight
Lorry crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 13 February 1979
At the same spotRef 197945GL00019
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 17 November 1979
At the same spotRef 197945GL00208
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 12 April 1983
At the same spotRef 198345GL00057
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 13 November 1984
10 m awayRef 198445GL00189
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 30 March 1983
10 m awayRef 198345GL00049
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 38 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 197945GL00065 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Mole Valley road accident statistics for 1979.