Serious unclassified road crash in Spelthorne TW15 on 10 July 1983 at 18:40 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Spelthorne at 18:40 on Sunday 10 July 1983. An 8-year-old male pedestrian 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
- 10 Jul 1983
- Sunday, 18:40
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44493, longitude -0.46376, in the TW15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ashford.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0465
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 9 April 2007.
Serious
Mercedes 190 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 9 April 2007
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Serious
Ford Transit crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 14 April 2007
10 m awayRef 200745SP02597
Slight
Ford Orion crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 28 December 1994
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Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 19 March 1995
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Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 30 January 2007
14 m awayRef 200745SP98834
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A30 in Spelthorne, 20 October 2017
16 m awayRef 2017450234570
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 8, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from offside, masked by parked or stationary vehicle
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 1983010IW0465 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.