Fatal A30 crash in Spelthorne on 20 December 1981 at 01:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in Spelthorne at 01:15 on Sunday 20 December 1981. The 17-year-old male driver was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 20 Dec 1981
- Sunday, 01:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LKBDG08
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalMale, aged 17, 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 198101LKBDG08 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.