A417 crash in the Vale of White Horse on 13 December 1985 at 20:30 involving a car
A car crashed on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse at 20:30 on Friday 13 December 1985. A 20-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 13 Dec 1985
- Friday, 20:30
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.63062, longitude -1.50325, in the SN7 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in the Vale of White Horse
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198543F023125
- Council area
- Vale of White Horse
- Police force
- Thames Valley
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 417
- 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
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 9 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 6 November 2020.
Slight
Car crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 6 November 2020
9 m awayRef 2020430362343
Serious
Car crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 28 January 1989
10 m awayRef 198943F078019
Slight
Volkswagen Sharan crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 8 July 2022
12 m awayRef 2022430300855
Slight
Honda Jazz crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 14 July 2004
20 m awayRef 200443P148074
Serious
Triumph Thunderbird crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 6 October 2017
20 m awayRef 2017430309267
Slight
HGV crash on the A417 in the Vale of White Horse, 17 August 2006
22 m awayRef 200643P170086
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North
- Travelling to
- South
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside and rebounded
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Front 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 198543F023125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Vale of White Horse road accident statistics for 1985.