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Serious unclassified road crash in Crawley RH10 on 21 December 1979 at 15:15 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Crawley at 15:15 on Friday 21 December 1979. A 20-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was seriously injured and a 21-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
21 Dec 1979
Friday, 15:15
Vehicles
2
Car and another
Casualties
2
1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1252, longitude -0.17315, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197947NA91092
Council area
Crawley
Police force
Sussex

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 3 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 29 November 2019.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Overtaking stationary vehicle on its offside
    Travelling from
    West
    Travelling to
    East
    Hit object in carriageway
    Parked vehicle
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Telegraph or electricity pole
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    30 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Parked
    First point of impact
    Offside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    42 years

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

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 197947NA91092 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 1979.