A306 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 19 August 1985 at 10:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames at 10:30 on Monday 19 August 1985. A 45-year-old male passenger in vehicle 1 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
- 19 Aug 1985
- Monday, 10:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.48112, longitude -0.23687, in the SW13 postcode district and within the built-up area of Richmond upon Thames.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TR00198
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 306
- 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 18 March 2006.
Slight
Dennis crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 18 March 2006
At the same spotRef 200601TW60067
Slight
Vauxhall Cavalier crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 May 1996
At the same spotRef 199601TW00296
Slight
MG 5 crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 18 June 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010581569
Slight
BMW 5 Series crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 17 February 2001
10 m awayRef 200101TW00083
Serious
Vauxhall Combo crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 9 March 2017
10 m awayRef 2017010025602
Serious
Car crash on the A306 in Richmond upon Thames, 11 November 1986
14 m awayRef 198601TR00285
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 30 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 45, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (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 198501TR00198 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.