A307 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 16 January 1985 at 11:15 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames at 11:15 on Wednesday 16 January 1985. An 84-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on an icy single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Jan 1985
- Wednesday, 11:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46433, longitude -0.29899, in the TW9 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TR00005
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 307
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 316
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Frost or ice
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 20 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 14 November 2018.
Slight
Mini One crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 14 November 2018
20 m awayRef 2018010146796
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 7 August 2023
25 m awayRef 2023010459416
Serious
Volvo V90 crash on an unclassified road in Richmond upon Thames, 10 June 2025
46 m awayRef 2025010579839
Slight
Dennis crash on the A316 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 August 1992
50 m awayRef 199201TW00477
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 5 March 1986
50 m awayRef 198601TR00037
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 15 July 1985
50 m awayRef 198501TR00166
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 84, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- Crossing elsewhere within 50 m of a pedestrian crossing
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's nearside
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 198501TR00005 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Richmond upon Thames road accident statistics for 1985.