B378 crash in Spelthorne on 21 January 1983 at 07:00 involving a car
A car crashed on the B378 in Spelthorne at 07:00 on Friday 21 January 1983. The 61-year-old male driver was slightly 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
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Jan 1983
- Friday, 07:00
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44598, longitude -0.46819, in the TW19 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0036
- 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
- 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
- Carriageway hazards
- Other object in carriageway
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 22 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 July 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 7 July 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TG00262
Serious
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 2 November 1990
36 m awayRef 199001TG00479
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Spelthorne, 13 September 1983
40 m awayRef 1983010IW0654
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 10 September 1999
50 m awayRef 199901TG00313
Slight
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Spelthorne, 4 March 2020
51 m awayRef 2020450940767
Slight
Van crash on a C road in Spelthorne, 31 July 1986
60 m awayRef 198601TG00341
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Hit object in carriageway
- Other object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 61 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 61, 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 1983010IW0036 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 1983.