A307 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 18 May 1985 at 12:12 involving a car
A car crashed on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames at 12:12 on Saturday 18 May 1985. A 31-year-old female passenger was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 May 1985
- Saturday, 12:12
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.46911, longitude -0.29406, in the TW9 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TR00130
- 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
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
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, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 9 March 1994.
Slight
Nissan Bluebird crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 March 1994
At the same spotRef 199401TW00112
Serious
Car crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 21 December 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TW00887
Slight
Car crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 26 May 1989
At the same spotRef 198901TW00594
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 17 October 2023
3 m awayRef 2023010472425
Slight
Kia Niro crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 14 June 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010580564
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A307 in Richmond upon Thames, 22 May 2007
10 m awayRef 200701TW60169
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Lamp post
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 31 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 31, 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 198501TR00130 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.