B378 crash in Spelthorne on 22 April 1983 at 06:25 involving a car
A car crashed on the B378 in Spelthorne at 06:25 on Friday 22 April 1983. The 23-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
- 22 Apr 1983
- Friday, 06:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44382, longitude -0.47545, in the TW19 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0274
- 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
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 13 March 2007.
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 13 March 2007
At the same spotRef 200745SP00966
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 22 May 1984
At the same spotRef 198401IW00346
Slight
Skoda Octavia crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 29 March 2020
3 m awayRef 2020450943211
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 3 March 2024
11 m awayRef 2024451416566
Slight
Triumph Tiger crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 21 April 2021
11 m awayRef 2021451037889
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 3 February 2025
14 m awayRef 2025451549975
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 23, 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 1983010IW0274 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.