Serious C road crash in Mole Valley KT22 on 21 October 1979 at 00:01 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Mole Valley at 00:01 on Sunday 21 October 1979. A 21-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 22-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Oct 1979
- Sunday, 00:01
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29152, longitude -0.29477, in the KT22 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 197945GL00182
- Council area
- Mole Valley
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
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Slight
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Slight
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Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 15 May 1984
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Mole Valley, 7 June 1984
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, 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 197945GL00182 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.