Unclassified road crash in Hillingdon UB3 on 16 October 1985 at 22:45 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon at 22:45 on Wednesday 16 October 1985. The 27-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 16 Oct 1985
- Wednesday, 22:45
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.50071, longitude -0.41852, in the UB3 postcode district and within the built-up area of Hillingdon.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198501XY00486
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, street lights lit
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 28 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 June 2023.
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 4 June 2023
28 m awayRef 2023010446875
Serious
Car crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 4 May 1984
28 m awayRef 198401XR00392
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 19 October 1990
32 m awayRef 199001XY00528
Slight
Toyota Carina crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 9 July 1998
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Serious
Motorcycle crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 3 May 1985
36 m awayRef 198501XY00194
Slight
Mercedes C Class crash on an unclassified road in Hillingdon, 17 September 2016
54 m awayRef 2016010021376
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- U-turn
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 27 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 27, 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 198501XY00486 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.