B375 crash in Spelthorne on 9 December 1983 at 16:30 involving a car
A car and a van were involved in a crash on the B375 in Spelthorne at 16:30 on Friday 9 December 1983. The 39-year-old female driver of the car was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 9 Dec 1983
- Friday, 16:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and van
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.39056, longitude -0.48039, in the TW17 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983010IW0935
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 375
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 16 September 1992.
Slight
Triumph crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 16 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201TG00372
Slight
Car crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 22 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010IW0974
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 10 October 1998
10 m awayRef 199801TG00378
Slight
Lorry crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 22 April 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010IW0272
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 18 June 1984
10 m awayRef 198401IW00408
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on the B375 in Spelthorne, 28 November 2020
14 m awayRef 2020451002299
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 39 years
Vehicle 2: Van
Van or goods vehicle up to 3.5 tonnes
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightFemale, aged 39, 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 1983010IW0935 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.