C road crash in Tandridge RH7 on 7 December 1980 at 15:50 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Tandridge at 15:50 on Sunday 7 December 1980. The 74-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 73-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Dec 1980
- Sunday, 15:50
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.16434, longitude 0.00705, in the RH7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dormansland.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198045BC00332
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
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 6 March 1989.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Tandridge, 6 March 1989
At the same spotRef 198945EC00077
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Tandridge, 1 June 1982
At the same spotRef 198245BC00133
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on a C road in Tandridge, 20 May 1997
At the same spotRef 199745EC00162
Slight
Vauxhall Insignia crash on a C road in Tandridge, 30 June 2015
6 m awayRef 2015450026370
Serious
Fiat 500 crash on an unclassified road in Tandridge, 23 September 2024
8 m awayRef 2024451494922
Serious
Peugeot 206 crash on a C road in Tandridge, 18 October 2014
8 m awayRef 2014450019042
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 74 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 74, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, 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 198045BC00332 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 1980.