B3015 crash in Surrey Heath on 16 January 1980 at 00:20 involving a car
A car crashed on the B3015 in Surrey Heath at 00:20 on Wednesday 16 January 1980. The 47-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 1980
- Wednesday, 00:20
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30276, longitude -0.70937, in the GU16 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198045CA00012
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 3015
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Other
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 2 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 December 2023.
Slight
Mercedes Sprinter crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 14 December 2023
2 m awayRef 2023451388089
Serious
Alfa Romeo Alfasud crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 28 May 1990
22 m awayRef 199045NC00211
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Surrey Heath, 1 July 1983
86 m awayRef 198345CA00214
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Surrey Heath, 16 September 1988
86 m awayRef 198845NC00396
Serious
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Surrey Heath, 18 September 1992
94 m awayRef 199245NC00365
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the B3015 in Surrey Heath, 13 June 1998
103 m awayRef 199845NC00266
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 47 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, 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 198045CA00012 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1980.