M3 crash in Surrey Heath on 24 January 1982 at 00:15 involving a car
A car crashed on the M3 in Surrey Heath at 00:15 on Sunday 24 January 1982. The 29-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 24 Jan 1982
- Sunday, 00:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35848, longitude -0.65854, in the GU20 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198245CA00028
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 3
- 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 November 2010.
Slight
Toyota Landcruiser crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 25 November 2010
20 m awayRef 201045SU56134
Serious
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 31 January 2025
20 m awayRef 2025451549128
Slight
Toyota Celica crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 21 August 2005
20 m awayRef 200545SU73153
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 6 December 1997
30 m awayRef 199745NM00160
Fatal
Car crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 11 May 1980
30 m awayRef 198045CA00144
Slight
Land Rover Discovery crash on the M3 in Surrey Heath, 21 April 2014
40 m awayRef 2014450014484
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198245CA00028 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1982.