B378 crash in Spelthorne on 7 September 1985 at 18:50 involving a car
A car crashed on the B378 in Spelthorne at 18:50 on Saturday 7 September 1985. The 17-year-old male driver was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Sep 1985
- Saturday, 18:50
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45092, longitude -0.48184, in the TW19 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Spelthorne
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TG00456
- Council area
- Spelthorne
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 378
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 June 1996.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 9 June 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TG00209
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 21 January 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010IW0038
Slight
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 7 January 1984
10 m awayRef 198401IW00019
Slight
Peugeot 306 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 7 December 2016
18 m awayRef 2016450143027
Serious
Alfa Romeo 156 crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 31 May 2013
20 m awayRef 2013450006491
Serious
Car crash on the B378 in Spelthorne, 19 October 1985
20 m awayRef 198501TG00544
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 17, 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 198501TG00456 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 1985.