C road crash in Havering RM7 on 7 February 1985 at 18:55 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on a C road in Havering at 18:55 on Thursday 7 February 1985. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Feb 1985
- Thursday, 18:55
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.58885, longitude 0.16126, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
Map of where the crash happened in Havering
Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.
- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501KD00098
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 13 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 8 January 2024.
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 8 January 2024
13 m awayRef 2024010488077
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 5 May 1983
22 m awayRef 1983010KD0414
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Havering, 2 December 1989
32 m awayRef 198901KD01216
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on a C road in Havering, 25 July 1993
36 m awayRef 199301KD00607
Slight
Nissan Vanette crash on a C road in Havering, 5 February 2005
41 m awayRef 200501KD50123
Serious
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Havering, 20 April 1997
41 m awayRef 199701KD00330
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, 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 198501KD00098 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Havering road accident statistics for 1985.