C road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH2 on 18 October 1980 at 19:24 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead at 19:24 on Saturday 18 October 1980. The 24-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 1980
- Saturday, 19:24
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22327, longitude -0.19347, in the RH2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Reigate and Banstead
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198045BD00371
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 January 1983.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 14 January 1983
10 m awayRef 198345BD00014
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 7 February 2000
14 m awayRef 200045ER00067
Slight
Renault 11 crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 22 February 1993
14 m awayRef 199345ER00040
Serious
Lorry crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 1 November 1979
20 m awayRef 197945BD00409
Slight
Mitsubishi Asx crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 16 November 2023
20 m awayRef 2023451375846
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 4 February 2007
22 m awayRef 200745RE98845
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 24, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198045BD00371 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 1980.