M4 crash in Hillingdon on 22 December 1985 at 12:00 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the M4 in Hillingdon at 12:00 on Sunday 22 December 1985. A 26-year-old female passenger in vehicle 3 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 70 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1985
- Sunday, 12:00
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49572, longitude -0.46277, in the UB7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Hillingdon
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TC00685
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Motorway
- First road number
- 4
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 70 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
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 June 2004.
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 7 June 2004
10 m awayRef 200401TE00541
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 11 October 2012
10 m awayRef 201201XH30669
Slight
Land Rover Defender crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 16 January 2017
14 m awayRef 2017010012253
Serious
Ford Mondeo crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 8 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199601TC00643
Slight
Car crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 1 December 2024
18 m awayRef 2024010546806
Serious
Volvo 343 crash on the M4 in Hillingdon, 24 January 1997
22 m awayRef 199701TC00035
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 26, car occupant, in vehicle 3 (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 198501TC00685 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1985.