B269 crash in Tandridge on 17 September 1981 at 06:05 involving a lorry
A lorry crashed on the B269 in Tandridge at 06:05 on Thursday 17 September 1981. The 33-year-old male driver and a 42-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet one-way street or slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 17 Sep 1981
- Thursday, 06:05
- Vehicles
- 1
- Lorry
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.30963, longitude -0.05506, in the CR6 postcode district and within the built-up area of Warlingham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198145BC00276
- Council area
- Tandridge
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 269
- Road type
- One way street or slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 12 March 1991.
Slight
Car crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 12 March 1991
At the same spotRef 199145EC00077
Serious
Kawasaki crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 29 September 1991
At the same spotRef 199145EC00299
Slight
Car crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 5 September 1982
10 m awayRef 198245BC00246
Slight
Car crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 13 February 1989
10 m awayRef 198945EC00048
Slight
Mini One crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 23 February 2016
13 m awayRef 2016450049341
Fatal
Ford Fiesta crash on the B269 in Tandridge, 16 May 2001
14 m awayRef 200145ME06014
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 33, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 42, goods vehicle occupant (over 3.5 tonnes), in vehicle 1 (Lorry)
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 198145BC00276 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Tandridge road accident statistics for 1981.