Serious A325 crash in Surrey Heath on 12 April 1985 at 23:05 involving a car
A car and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath at 23:05 on Friday 12 April 1985. The 21-year-old male rider of the motorcycle and a 19-year-old female passenger on the motorcycle were seriously injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a private drive or entrance.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 12 Apr 1985
- Friday, 23:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and motorcycle
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.32451, longitude -0.73359, in the GU15 postcode district and within the built-up area of Camberley.
Map of where the crash happened in Surrey Heath
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198545NC00125
- Council area
- Surrey Heath
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 325
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Using private drive or entrance
- 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, street lights lit
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 27 January 1995.
Slight
Austin Metro crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 27 January 1995
10 m awayRef 199545NC00025
Slight
Bicycle crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 5 October 1984
22 m awayRef 198445CA00352
Serious
Car crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 26 October 1983
22 m awayRef 198345CA00382
Serious
Car crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 11 July 1988
22 m awayRef 198845NC00286
Slight
Car crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 7 January 1991
28 m awayRef 199145NC00008
Slight
Car crash on the A325 in Surrey Heath, 30 May 1988
28 m awayRef 198845NC00217
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Nearside
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 17 years
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 21 years
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Rider
SeriousMale, aged 21, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 19, motorcyclist, on vehicle 2 (Motorcycle)
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 198545NC00125 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Surrey Heath road accident statistics for 1985.