Serious A118 crash in Havering on 31 December 1985 at 17:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A118 in Havering at 17:45 on Tuesday 31 December 1985. The 33-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was seriously injured and a 25-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly 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
- 31 Dec 1985
- Tuesday, 17:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.57502, longitude 0.1746, in the RM7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Havering.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501KD01146
- Council area
- Havering
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 118
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 162
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 11 March 1997.
Slight
Rover 100 Series crash on the A118 in Havering, 11 March 1997
At the same spotRef 199701KD00208
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A118 in Havering, 9 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200001KD00576
Serious
Ford Focus crash on the A118 in Havering, 18 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200201KD00300
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A118 in Havering, 2 March 2010
At the same spotRef 201001KD50134
Slight
Car crash on the A118 in Havering, 20 August 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010KD0758
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A118 in Havering, 20 May 1985
At the same spotRef 198501KD00414
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 35 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousMale, aged 33, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 25, 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 198501KD01146 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.