A437 crash in Hillingdon on 21 November 1985 at 06:30 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A437 in Hillingdon at 06:30 on Thursday 21 November 1985. The 48-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and the 42-year-old male driver of vehicle 2 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 21 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 06:30
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.49696, longitude -0.42729, 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
- 198501XY00546
- Council area
- Hillingdon
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 437
- 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
- B
- Second road number
- 464
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 1 April 1997.
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the B464 in Hillingdon, 1 April 1997
At the same spotRef 199701XH00261
Slight
Nissan Micra crash on the A437 in Hillingdon, 19 August 2001
At the same spotRef 200101XH00714
Slight
Ford Sierra crash on the A437 in Hillingdon, 8 January 1995
At the same spotRef 199501XH00028
Fatal
Audi 80 crash on the B464 in Hillingdon, 15 July 1997
At the same spotRef 199701XH00660
Slight
Car crash on the A437 in Hillingdon, 7 October 1985
At the same spotRef 198501XY00490
Slight
Car crash on the A437 in Hillingdon, 1 September 1984
At the same spotRef 198401XR00747
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- West
- Travelling to
- South
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 42 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SlightMale, aged 42, 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 198501XY00546 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.