Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne on 13 December 1981 at 00:20 involving a car

Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 00:20 on Sunday 13 December 1981. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in snow on a road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 13 Dec 1981; Sunday, 00:20
Vehicles: 3; Car and 2 others
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LDAEY07
Council area: Spelthorne
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: Unclassified
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: T or staggered junction
Junction control: Give way or uncontrolled

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Dark, street lights lit
Weather: Snowing, no high winds
Road surface: Snow

Vehicles involved (3)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked
Driver sex
Male
Vehicle 3: Car
Manoeuvre
Parked

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 18, 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 198101LDAEY07 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.