Skip to main content
CrashStats

Serious A312 crash in Ealing on 2 December 1985 at 00:30 involving a car

A car crashed on the A312 in Ealing at 00:30 on Monday 2 December 1985. There were five casualties: three people were seriously injured and two were slightly injured.

It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Serious
Date
2 Dec 1985
Monday, 00:30
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
5
3 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.53596, longitude -0.39206, in the UB5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing.

Map of where the crash happened in Ealing

Use the arrow keys to move the map and the plus and minus keys to zoom.

  • 1 crash
  • Serious

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
198501XS00737
Council area
Ealing
Police force
Metropolitan Police

Road and location details

First road class
A
First road number
312
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
40 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
B
Second road number
455

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
Wet or damp

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 14 October 2002.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Going ahead
    Travelling from
    South West
    Travelling to
    North East
    Skidding and overturning
    Skidded
    Hit object in carriageway
    Kerb
    Leaving the carriageway
    Nearside
    Hit object off carriageway
    Lamp post
    First point of impact
    Nearside
    Driver sex
    Male
    Driver age
    18 years

Casualties (5)

  • Casualty 1: Driver

    Serious

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

  • Casualty 2: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 17, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Front seat passenger

  • Casualty 3: Passenger

    Slight

    Male, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 4: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, aged 16, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

  • Casualty 5: Passenger

    Serious

    Male, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

    Car passenger
    Rear seat passenger

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 198501XS00737 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.