C road crash in Guildford KT11 on 5 October 1985 at 21:25 involving a car
A car crashed on a C road in Guildford at 21:25 on Saturday 5 October 1985. A 26-year-old male passenger was slightly injured.
It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 5 Oct 1985
- Saturday, 21:25
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.29962, longitude -0.41669, in the KT11 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Guildford
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198545NW00416
- Council area
- Guildford
- Police force
- Surrey
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Dry
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a slight injury crash on 15 February 1993.
Slight
Rover Montego crash on a C road in Guildford, 15 February 1993
At the same spotRef 199345WG00074
Slight
Citroen Saxo crash on a C road in Guildford, 13 February 2007
10 m awayRef 200745GU00479
Fatal
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Guildford, 16 August 2003
10 m awayRef 200345RW41243
Slight
Volkswagen Polo crash on an unclassified road in Guildford, 30 November 2024
11 m awayRef 2024451523883
Serious
BMW 5 Series crash on a C road in Guildford, 27 November 1993
20 m awayRef 199345WG00756
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on a C road in Guildford, 31 December 2008
20 m awayRef 200845EL33279
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North
- Skidding and overturning
- Skidded and overturned
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 33 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Passenger
SlightMale, aged 26, 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 198545NW00416 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Guildford road accident statistics for 1985.