Unclassified road crash in Spelthorne on 21 December 1981 at 06:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 06:30 on Monday 21 December 1981. All four casualties were 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
- 21 Dec 1981
- Monday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 4
- 4 slightly injured
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198101LLGGY01
- 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 (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (4)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 50, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
Casualty 4: Driver
SlightMale, aged 47, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198101LLGGY01 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.