Serious B4480 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 18 September 1981 at 12:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the B4480 in Stratford-on-Avon at 12:45 on Friday 18 September 1981. The 20-year-old male driver was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 18 Sep 1981
- Friday, 12:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29377, longitude -1.80641, in the B95 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981238101367
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4480
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 36 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 17 February 2000.
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Stratford-on-Avon, 17 February 2000
36 m awayRef 2000230000310
Serious
Mitsubishi crash on a C road in Stratford-on-Avon, 30 July 2005
36 m awayRef 2005230591063
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in Stratford-on-Avon, 16 May 2012
37 m awayRef 2012233048512
Serious
Van crash on a C road in Stratford-on-Avon, 6 August 2013
43 m awayRef 2013233079313
Serious
Kawasaki ZX1000 crash on the B4480 in Stratford-on-Avon, 28 April 1991
50 m awayRef 1991239100640
Slight
Citroen DS3 crash on an unclassified road in Stratford-on-Avon, 29 March 2024
57 m awayRef 2024231429932
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 20, 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 1981238101367 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1981.