A225 crash in Dartford on 11 January 1981 at 20:15 involving a car
Four cars were involved in a crash on the A225 in Dartford at 20:15 on Sunday 11 January 1981. The 20-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and a 22-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 11 Jan 1981
- Sunday, 20:15
- Vehicles
- 4
- Car and 3 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43232, longitude 0.21688, in the DA1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Dartford.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1981463200331
- Council area
- Dartford
- Police force
- Kent
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 225
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 2 August 1986.
Slight
Car crash on the A225 in Dartford, 2 August 1986
At the same spotRef 1986463206446
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the A225 in Dartford, 29 March 2005
14 m awayRef 2005460108605
Slight
Fiat Ducato crash on the A225 in Dartford, 11 February 2023
26 m awayRef 2023461277435
Slight
Car crash on the A225 in Dartford, 15 May 2013
36 m awayRef 2013460227546
Slight
BMW 1 Series crash on the A225 in Dartford, 11 July 2022
39 m awayRef 2022461207144
Slight
Volkswagen Caddy crash on the A225 in Dartford, 31 August 2010
41 m awayRef 2010460190239
Vehicles involved (4)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Vehicle 4: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 1981463200331 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Dartford road accident statistics for 1981.