Serious C road crash in Reigate and Banstead RH2 on 17 May 1982 at 08:30 involving a motorcycle
A motorcycle and a car were involved in a crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead at 08:30 on Monday 17 May 1982. The 17-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 17 May 1982
- Monday, 08:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Motorcycle and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.22308, longitude -0.19276, in the RH2 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198245BD00166
- Council area
- Reigate and Banstead
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 18 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 December 2018.
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 16 December 2018
18 m awayRef 2018450806155
Serious
Car crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 6 August 1987
22 m awayRef 198745ER00284
Slight
Car crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 30 October 1979
22 m awayRef 197945BD00406
Slight
Car crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 4 September 1987
22 m awayRef 198745ER00326
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Reigate and Banstead, 18 May 1983
30 m awayRef 198345BD00161
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on the A2044 in Reigate and Banstead, 20 September 2010
32 m awayRef 201045RE54557
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 43 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 17, 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 198245BD00166 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Reigate and Banstead road accident statistics for 1982.