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A308 crash in Spelthorne on 16 December 1982 at 23:00 involving a bicycle

A bicycle and a car were involved in a crash on the A308 in Spelthorne at 23:00 on Thursday 16 December 1982. The 17-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
16 Dec 1982
Thursday, 23:00
Vehicles
2
Bicycle and car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42317, longitude -0.45011, in the TW15 postcode district.

Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
1982010IW0953
Council area
Spelthorne
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
308
Road type
Dual carriageway
Speed limit
70 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, 8 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 20 March 2014.

Vehicles involved (2)

  • Vehicle 1: Bicycle

    Pedal cycle

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Back
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    17 years

  • Vehicle 2: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South East
    Travelling to
    North West
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    20 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Cyclist

    Slight

    Female, aged 17, on vehicle 1 (Bicycle)

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 1982010IW0953 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.