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Serious A244 crash in Spelthorne on 23 July 1982 at 23:40 involving a car

A car crashed on the A244 in Spelthorne at 23:40 on Friday 23 July 1982. A 25-year-old female passenger and a 40-year-old male passenger were seriously injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
23 Jul 1982
Friday, 23:40
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
2
2 seriously injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42475, longitude -0.42733, in the TW16 postcode district and within the built-up area of Sunbury-on-Thames.

Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne

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  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010IW0501
Council area
Spelthorne
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
244
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 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
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 20 November 2007.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South
    Travelling to
    North
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Other permanent object
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male

Casualties (2)

  • Casualty 1: Passenger

    Serious

    Female, aged 25, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 40, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear 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 1982010IW0501 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.