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Serious B376 crash in Spelthorne on 30 January 1982 at 18:40 involving a motorcycle

A motorcycle crashed on the B376 in Spelthorne at 18:40 on Saturday 30 January 1982. The 19-year-old male rider was seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
30 Jan 1982
Saturday, 18:40
Vehicles
1
Motorcycle
Casualties
1
1 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42969, longitude -0.50944, in the TW18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Staines-upon-Thames.

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010IW0069
Council area
Spelthorne
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
B
First road number
376
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
C

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
Dry

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 18 October 1992.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Motorcycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside and rebounded
    Hit object off carriageway
    Tree
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    19 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Rider

    Serious

    Male, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 1 (Motorcycle)

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 1982010IW0069 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 1982.