A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 23 December 1981 at 00:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 00:15 on Wednesday 23 December 1981. The 22-year-old female driver and a 27-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Dec 1981
- Wednesday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33284, longitude -0.77226, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198145CA00450
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Auto traffic signal
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 27 July 1982.
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 27 July 1982
At the same spotRef 198245CA00263
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 19 September 2015
1 m awayRef 2015450030814
Slight
Mercedes A Class crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 2 September 2025
7 m awayRef 2025451636369
Slight
Van crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 7 September 1988
10 m awayRef 198845NC00381
Slight
Car crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 18 November 1988
10 m awayRef 198845NC00544
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 1 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199245NC00330
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Road sign or traffic signal
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 27, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 198145CA00450 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1981.