Fatal A3095 crash in Bracknell Forest on 8 November 1985 at 17:35 involving a car
Three cars were involved in a crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest at 17:35 on Friday 8 November 1985. The 26-year-old female driver of vehicle 1 was killed.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in rain and high winds on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Fatal
- Date
- 8 Nov 1985
- Friday, 17:35
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 killed
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.45311, longitude -0.75133, in the RG42 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Bracknell Forest
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- 1 crash
- Fatal
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198543C050115
- Council area
- Bracknell Forest
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 3095
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 60 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- Unclassified
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, no street lighting
- Weather
- Raining with high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
- Special conditions at the site
- Roadworks
- Carriageway hazards
- Roadworks
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 6 September 2000.
Slight
Jaguar XJ Series crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 6 September 2000
At the same spotRef 200043W189090
Slight
Yamaha crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 10 April 2002
At the same spotRef 200243W178042
Slight
Volvo 340 crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 8 October 1992
10 m awayRef 199243R021102
Fatal
Ford Escort crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 6 October 1994
10 m awayRef 199443R053104
Slight
Vauxhall Frontera crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 30 January 2001
10 m awayRef 200143W722011
Slight
Car crash on the A3095 in Bracknell Forest, 16 August 2001
10 m awayRef 200143W448081
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 26 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 49 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 29 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
FatalFemale, aged 26, 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 198543C050115 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Bracknell Forest road accident statistics for 1985.