A308 crash in Runnymede on 7 November 1985 at 18:10 involving a car
Two cars and a motorcycle were involved in a crash on the A308 in Runnymede at 18:10 on Thursday 7 November 1985. The 40-year-old male rider of the motorcycle was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 40 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Nov 1985
- Thursday, 18:10
- Vehicles
- 3
- Car and 2 others
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.43434, longitude -0.52828, in the TW18 postcode district and within the built-up area of Egham.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198545NC00492
- Council area
- Runnymede
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 308
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 40 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
- Dark, street lights lit
- 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 24 December 2006.
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 24 December 2006
At the same spotRef 200645RU96591
Slight
Car crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 7 February 1985
At the same spotRef 198545NC00040
Serious
Car crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 8 September 1979
At the same spotRef 197945AD00268
Slight
Renault Clio crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 10 October 1995
At the same spotRef 199545NA00446
Slight
Motorcycle crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 7 October 1989
At the same spotRef 198945NC00374
Slight
Daewoo Matiz crash on the A308 in Runnymede, 7 May 2014
2 m awayRef 2014450015199
Vehicles involved (3)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Turning right
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- East
- First point of impact
- Offside
- Driver sex
- Male
Vehicle 2: Motorcycle
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- East
- Travelling to
- West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 40 years
Vehicle 3: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- Parked
- Travelling to
- Parked
- First point of impact
- Did not impact
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Rider
SlightMale, aged 40, 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 198545NC00492 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.