B378 crash in Spelthorne on 9 October 1982 at 23:40 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on the B378 in Spelthorne at 23:40 on Saturday 9 October 1982. The 23-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Oct 1982
- Saturday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.4337, longitude -0.46471, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1982010IW0742
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 378
- 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
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 October 1987.
Slight
Van crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 9 October 1987
At the same spotRef 198701TG00393
Slight
Peugeot 308 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 29 October 2021
7 m awayRef 2021451103944
Slight
Bus crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 16 February 1994
10 m awayRef 199401TG00067
Slight
Honda crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 15 October 1993
10 m awayRef 199301TG00386
Slight
Gilera Runner crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 7 November 2008
10 m awayRef 200845SP31954
Serious
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 12 December 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TG00591
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 1982010IW0742 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.