Unclassified road crash in North Warwickshire B78 on 2 October 1983 at 23:01 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire at 23:01 on Sunday 2 October 1983. A 16-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 2 Oct 1983
- Sunday, 23:01
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.60345, longitude -1.6131, in the B78 postcode district and within the built-up area of Polesworth and Dordon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1983238301524
- Council area
- North Warwickshire
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- Unclassified
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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 89 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 17 August 2023.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in North Warwickshire, 17 August 2023
89 m awayRef 2023231346682
Slight
Car crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 4 March 1999
92 m awayRef 1999239900420
Serious
Car crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 18 May 2001
92 m awayRef 2001230100784
Slight
Ford Focus crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 17 April 2006
92 m awayRef 2006230695631
Serious
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 23 June 2011
95 m awayRef 2011231195792
Slight
Rover 200 Series crash on a C road in North Warwickshire, 8 November 1998
98 m awayRef 1998239801935
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 23 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
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 1983238301524 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the North Warwickshire road accident statistics for 1983.