Serious A315 crash in Westminster on 20 October 1985 at 23:45 involving a car
A car crashed on the A315 in Westminster at 23:45 on Sunday 20 October 1985. A male passenger 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
- 20 Oct 1985
- Sunday, 23:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50143, longitude -0.18249, in the SW7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Kensington and Chelsea.
Map of where the crash happened in Westminster
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501BD00374
- Council area
- Westminster
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 315
- 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
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Central refuge, no other controls
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 12 November 1993.
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A315 in Westminster, 12 November 1993
At the same spotRef 199301AB00419
Slight
Car crash on the A315 in Westminster, 26 October 1986
At the same spotRef 198601BD00340
Slight
Ford Transit crash on the A315 in Westminster, 12 May 2010
At the same spotRef 201001BS70257
Slight
Honda ANF125 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 11 September 2013
At the same spotRef 201301BS70525
Slight
Mercedes 300 crash on the A315 in Westminster, 8 February 1992
At the same spotRef 199201BD00031
Serious
Motorcycle crash on the A315 in Westminster, 17 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198501BD00211
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 46 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SeriousMale, 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 198501BD00374 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.