Serious B349 crash in Richmond upon Thames on 4 December 1985 at 13:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames at 13:30 on Wednesday 4 December 1985. The 19-year-old female driver was seriously 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
- Serious
- Date
- 4 Dec 1985
- Wednesday, 13:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.47037, longitude -0.23959, in the SW13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501TR00308
- Council area
- Richmond upon Thames
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 349
- 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
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a serious injury crash on 8 March 1986.
Serious
Car crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 8 March 1986
10 m awayRef 198601TR00041
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 25 October 1995
22 m awayRef 199501TW00705
Serious
Ford Escort crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 15 November 1995
22 m awayRef 199501TW00744
Slight
Ford KA crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 13 June 2000
22 m awayRef 200001TW00386
Slight
Kawasaki crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 30 September 1993
22 m awayRef 199301TW00588
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B349 in Richmond upon Thames, 24 July 2021
44 m awayRef 2021010320702
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
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 198501TR00308 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.