A40 crash in Ealing on 22 October 1985 at 15:40 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A40 in Ealing at 15:40 on Tuesday 22 October 1985. A 36-year-old male passenger in vehicle 2 and the 59-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry dual carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Oct 1985
- Tuesday, 15:40
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53, longitude -0.29496, in the W5 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Ealing
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501XD00809
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 40
- Road type
- Dual carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- A
- Second road number
- 406
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 24 September 1985.
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A40 in Ealing, 24 September 1985
At the same spotRef 198501XD00737
Slight
BMW 3 Series crash on the A406 in Ealing, 3 February 2023
4 m awayRef 2023010425274
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A406 in Ealing, 30 September 2025
6 m awayRef 2025010601351
Slight
Mini Cooper crash on the A40 in Ealing, 9 May 2023
7 m awayRef 2023010442187
Slight
Nissan Pulsar crash on the A40 in Ealing, 15 December 2019
9 m awayRef 2019010225160
Slight
Toyota Hiace crash on the A40 in Ealing, 4 February 1996
10 m awayRef 199601XD00079
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 59 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 36, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 59, 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 198501XD00809 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1985.