Serious A30 crash in Spelthorne on 12 December 1981 at 03:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in Spelthorne at 03:00 on Saturday 12 December 1981. A 19-year-old male passenger was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Dec 1981
- Saturday, 03:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LCDAG06
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Snowing, no high winds
- Road surface
- Snow
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198101LCDAG06 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Spelthorne road accident statistics for 1981.