Serious B4439 crash in Warwick on 10 November 1985 at 18:00 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4439 in Warwick at 18:00 on Sunday 10 November 1985. The 44-year-old female driver of vehicle 2 was seriously injured and the 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in the rain on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 10 Nov 1985
- Sunday, 18:00
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 1 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.3133, longitude -1.68751, in the CV35 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Warwick
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238501855
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- B
- First road number
- 4439
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 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, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 100 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 31 July 1979.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Warwick, 31 July 1979
100 m awayRef 1979230001040
Slight
Saab 900 crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 1 December 1995
102 m awayRef 1995239502034
Serious
Vehicle crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 24 October 1989
141 m awayRef 1989238902011
Slight
Car crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 8 January 1983
141 m awayRef 1983238300122
Serious
Volkswagen Polo crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 5 September 1999
180 m awayRef 1999239901536
Slight
Skoda Yeti crash on the B4439 in Warwick, 8 January 2019
192 m awayRef 2019230354902
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 44 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 29, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Driver
SeriousFemale, aged 44, 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 1985238501855 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1985.