Serious unclassified road crash in Runnymede GU25 on 16 February 1985 at 10:23 involving a car
A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Runnymede at 10:23 on Saturday 16 February 1985. An 81-year-old male pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 16 Feb 1985
- Saturday, 10:23
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.40195, longitude -0.56339, in the GU25 postcode district and within the built-up area of Virginia Water.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198545NC00048
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- 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
- Daylight
- 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 13 December 1995.
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Slight
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Honda Shuttle crash on an unclassified road in Runnymede, 7 March 2010
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Serious
Bicycle crash on an unclassified road in Runnymede, 13 August 1982
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Slight
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Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 36 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousMale, aged 81, hit by 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 198545NC00048 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Runnymede road accident statistics for 1985.