B241 crash in Wandsworth on 1 October 1985 at 22:10 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on the B241 in Wandsworth at 22:10 on Tuesday 1 October 1985. A 15-year-old female pedestrian was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 1 Oct 1985
- Tuesday, 22:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.42495, longitude -0.15676, in the SW17 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501WD00474
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 241
- 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 July 2001.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 25 July 2001
14 m awayRef 200101WW00833
Serious
Bicycle crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 21 June 1992
22 m awayRef 199201WD00259
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 11 January 1997
36 m awayRef 199701WW00009
Slight
Car crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 6 January 1989
36 m awayRef 198901WD00012
Slight
Car crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 23 February 1989
42 m awayRef 198901WD00089
Slight
Bicycle crash on the B241 in Wandsworth, 16 March 2017
42 m awayRef 2017010026801
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South West
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 20 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SlightFemale, aged 15, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
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 198501WD00474 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wandsworth road accident statistics for 1985.