Serious A425 crash in Warwick on 14 December 1985 at 00:10 involving a car
A car crashed on the A425 in Warwick at 00:10 on Saturday 14 December 1985. A 20-year-old female passenger was seriously injured and the 28-year-old male driver and a 21-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 14 Dec 1985
- Saturday, 00:10
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 3
- 1 seriously injured, 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.28878, longitude -1.60558, in the CV34 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 1985238502049
- Council area
- Warwick
- Police force
- Warwickshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 425
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 85 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 25 May 2000.
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A425 in Warwick, 25 May 2000
85 m awayRef 2000230000900
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in Warwick, 19 August 1983
100 m awayRef 1983238301277
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in Warwick, 8 March 1979
100 m awayRef 1979230000318
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in Warwick, 6 May 1982
100 m awayRef 1982238200744
Slight
Car crash on the A425 in Warwick, 2 June 1979
100 m awayRef 1979230000770
Serious
Car crash on the A425 in Warwick, 18 December 1979
100 m awayRef 1979230002005
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- 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
SlightFemale, aged 21, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, 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 1985238502049 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.