Unclassified road crash in Barnet NW11 on 23 March 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Barnet at 18:00 on Saturday 23 March 1985. A 73-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and a 73-year-old female passenger in vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 23 Mar 1985
- Saturday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.56584, longitude -0.19594, in the NW11 postcode district and within the built-up area of Barnet.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501SG00146
- Council area
- Barnet
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- 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
- A
- Second road number
- 598
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 June 1985.
Slight
Car crash on the A598 in Barnet, 15 June 1985
At the same spotRef 198501SG00302
Slight
Suzuki crash on the A598 in Barnet, 8 September 1992
At the same spotRef 199201SG00467
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A598 in Barnet, 30 April 2022
4 m awayRef 2022010373681
Serious
Volkswagen Tiguan crash on the A598 in Barnet, 17 November 2020
7 m awayRef 2020010279891
Slight
Yamaha YZF crash on the A598 in Barnet, 4 July 2021
8 m awayRef 2021010317324
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on the A598 in Barnet, 2 September 2009
10 m awayRef 200901SX20850
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Parked vehicle
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 50 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 73, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear 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 198501SG00146 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Barnet road accident statistics for 1985.