Serious A3212 crash in Westminster on 5 July 1985 at 22:15 involving a lorry
A lorry and a car were involved in a crash on the A3212 in Westminster at 22:15 on Friday 5 July 1985. The 19-year-old male driver of the car was seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 5 Jul 1985
- Friday, 22:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Lorry and car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48574, longitude -0.14566, in the SW1V postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501AR00142
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3212
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- C
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
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 7 April 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 7 April 1985
At the same spotRef 198501AR00068
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 24 April 1993
At the same spotRef 199301AB00136
Slight
Fiat Tipo crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 3 July 1993
At the same spotRef 199301AB00243
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 12 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199301AB00423
Serious
Austin Mini crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 8 March 1995
At the same spotRef 199501AB00094
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A3212 in Westminster, 23 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198501AR00117
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Lorry
Goods vehicle over 3.5 tonnes
- Towing and articulation
- Articulated vehicle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 24 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 19, 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 198501AR00142 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Westminster road accident statistics for 1985.