A322 crash in Surrey Heath on 19 October 1983 at 19:10 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath at 19:10 on Wednesday 19 October 1983. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting on a wet dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 19 Oct 1983
- Wednesday, 19:10
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.35649, longitude -0.68172, in the GU19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198345CA00367
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 322
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Motorway
- Second road number
- 3
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 28 March 1999.
Slight
Alfa Romeo 146 crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 28 March 1999
At the same spotRef 199945NC00101
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 28 April 2009
At the same spotRef 200945SU37846
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 28 September 2001
At the same spotRef 200145NW12983
Slight
Volvo 940 crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 4 February 1997
At the same spotRef 199745NC00039
Slight
Fiat Panda crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 16 August 1996
At the same spotRef 199645NC00240
Slight
Vauxhall Vivaro crash on the A322 in Surrey Heath, 19 September 2016
4 m awayRef 2016450107815
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 18 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, 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 198345CA00367 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.