A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 18 August 1980 at 18:05 involving a bus or coach
A bus or coach hit a pedestrian on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 18:05 on Monday 18 August 1980. A 16-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Aug 1980
- Monday, 18:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Bus or coach
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.36361, longitude -0.69128, in the GU19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Bagshot.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198045CA00256
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 3029
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
- Special conditions at the site
- Auto traffic signal, out
- Carriageway hazards
- Defective traffic signals
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 1 November 1982.
Slight
Scooter crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 1 November 1982
10 m awayRef 198245CA00423
Slight
Vehicle crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 4 April 1982
14 m awayRef 198245CA00097
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 June 1987
14 m awayRef 198745NC00255
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 25 March 1997
14 m awayRef 199745NC00093
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 11 November 1987
14 m awayRef 198745NC00494
Slight
Lorry crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 18 June 1987
14 m awayRef 198745NC00257
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Bus or coach
Bus or coach (17 or more seats)
- Manoeuvre
- Turning left
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightMale, aged 16, hit by vehicle 1 (Bus or coach)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198045CA00256 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.