B237 crash in Wandsworth on 18 November 1985 at 23:40 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B237 in Wandsworth at 23:40 on Monday 18 November 1985. The 28-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 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 crossroads.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Nov 1985
- Monday, 23:40
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45083, longitude -0.156, in the SW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501WD00566
- Council area
- Wandsworth
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 237
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Zebra crossing
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 27 September 1988.
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 27 September 1988
At the same spotRef 198801WD00420
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 29 December 1987
At the same spotRef 198701WD00547
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 7 June 1989
At the same spotRef 198901WD00262
Slight
Ford Transit Custom crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 25 May 2022
3 m awayRef 2022010378416
Slight
Nissan Qashqai crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 2 October 2025
8 m awayRef 2025010601668
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 3 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010WD0699
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (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 198501WD00566 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.