A30 crash in Surrey Heath on 23 March 1983 at 19:10 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath at 19:10 on Wednesday 23 March 1983. The 14-year-old male cyclist 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 private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 1983
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.33803, longitude -0.75317, in the GU15 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198345CA00110
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 30
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, 11 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 22 April 2025.
Slight
Volkswagen T-Cross crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 22 April 2025
11 m awayRef 2025451580767
Slight
Lorry crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 January 1986
14 m awayRef 198645NC00034
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 10 May 1997
14 m awayRef 199745NC00157
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 23 October 1997
14 m awayRef 199745NC00388
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 25 February 2023
24 m awayRef 2023451282079
Slight
Yamaha GPD crash on the A30 in Surrey Heath, 17 February 2025
30 m awayRef 2025451555244
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 45 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Lane or location
- Not on carriageway
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 14 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightMale, aged 14, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198345CA00110 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1983.