A408 crash in Hillingdon on 26 May 1985 at 15:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A408 in Hillingdon at 15:30 on Sunday 26 May 1985. An 11-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 26 May 1985
- Sunday, 15:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49828, longitude -0.45894, in the UB7 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501XY00262
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 408
- 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
- Raining, 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 11 October 2018.
Slight
Mini One crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 11 October 2018
At the same spotRef 2018010138409
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 21 June 2022
6 m awayRef 2022010384234
Slight
Peugeot 307 crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 30 March 2014
10 m awayRef 201401XH30226
Slight
Car crash on the A408 in Hillingdon, 24 December 1982
10 m awayRef 1982010IW0983
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 23 July 2010
20 m awayRef 201001XH30490
Slight
Vauxhall Corsa crash on a C road in Hillingdon, 14 May 2025
25 m awayRef 2025010574885
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to go ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Back
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 11, 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 198501XY00262 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Hillingdon road accident statistics for 1985.