Serious unclassified road crash in Guildford GU23 on 21 December 1983 at 09:08 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Guildford at 09:08 on Wednesday 21 December 1983. The 34-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 30-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Dec 1983
- Wednesday, 09:08
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29502, longitude -0.51223, in the GU23 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198345CD00433
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 16 January 2017.
Slight
Ford Focus crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 16 January 2017
9 m awayRef 2017450150844
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 20 March 2025
27 m awayRef 2025451567442
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 27 November 1995
149 m awayRef 199545WG00662
Slight
Subaru Impreza crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 22 September 2007
150 m awayRef 200745GU10940
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 2 August 2005
162 m awayRef 200545GU71233
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 15 October 1991
175 m awayRef 199145NW00384
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 34 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 34, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 30, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198345CD00433 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 1983.