Serious B378 crash in Spelthorne on 31 December 1981 at 10:55 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on the B378 in Spelthorne at 10:55 on Thursday 31 December 1981. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.

It happened in daylight on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Serious
Date: 31 Dec 1981; Thursday, 10:55
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 198101LVKLM05
Council area: Spelthorne
Police force: Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 378
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Not at junction or within 20 metres

Environmental conditions

Light conditions: Daylight
Weather: Other
Road surface: Dry

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Driver sex
Female
Driver age
44 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Pedestrian
Serious
Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
Pedestrian location
In carriageway, crossing elsewhere

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 198101LVKLM05 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.