B237 crash in Wandsworth on 30 November 1985 at 15:55 involving a car
A car crashed on the B237 in Wandsworth at 15:55 on Saturday 30 November 1985. The 24-year-old male driver 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
- 30 Nov 1985
- Saturday, 15:55
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.44269, longitude -0.16425, in the SW12 postcode district and within the built-up area of Wandsworth.
Map of where the crash happened in Wandsworth
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501WD00596
- 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
- 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 11 July 1983.
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 11 July 1983
At the same spotRef 1983010WD0390
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 12 February 1983
10 m awayRef 1983010WD0096
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 3 December 1984
14 m awayRef 198401WD00655
Slight
Vehicle crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 24 November 1983
14 m awayRef 1983010WD0620
Serious
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 30 November 1984
14 m awayRef 198401WD00648
Slight
Car crash on the B237 in Wandsworth, 7 February 1986
14 m awayRef 198601WD00076
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- 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
- 24 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 24, 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 198501WD00596 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.