A423 crash in Stratford-on-Avon on 18 February 1985 at 23:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon at 23:30 on Monday 18 February 1985. The 28-year-old male driver, an 18-year-old male passenger and an 18-year-old male passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Feb 1985
- Monday, 23:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 3 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28337, longitude -1.39161, in the CV47 postcode district and within the built-up area of Long Itchington.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238500226
- Council area
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 423
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 1 May 1990.
Slight
Ford Granada crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 1 May 1990
At the same spotRef 1990239000967
Serious
Lorry crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 26 May 1980
At the same spotRef 1980238000804
Slight
Car crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 16 November 1995
30 m awayRef 1995239501934
Fatal
BMW 3 Series crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 8 December 2018
31 m awayRef 2018230349700
Slight
Citroen Xsara crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 2 April 2012
34 m awayRef 2012233032012
Slight
Vauxhall Belmont crash on the A423 in Stratford-on-Avon, 18 May 2002
61 m awayRef 2002230290898
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside and rebounded
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 28 years
Casualties (3)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 28, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 18, 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 1985238500226 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stratford-on-Avon road accident statistics for 1985.