C road crash in Crawley RH10 on 3 October 1985 at 08:15 involving a car
A car and a bicycle were involved in a crash on a C road in Crawley at 08:15 on Thursday 3 October 1985. The 15-year-old female cyclist was slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 3 Oct 1985
- Thursday, 08:15
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and bicycle
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.1106, longitude -0.17072, in the RH10 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crawley.
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198547NA50461
- Council area
- Crawley
- Police force
- Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- 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
- Wet or damp
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 10 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 5 February 1993.
Slight
Fiat Uno crash on a C road in Crawley, 5 February 1993
10 m awayRef 199347NA30063
Slight
Ford Escort crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 7 May 2002
10 m awayRef 200247K150254
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Crawley, 8 September 1992
10 m awayRef 199247NA20499
Slight
Ford Fiesta crash on a C road in Crawley, 9 July 1995
14 m awayRef 199547NA50388
Slight
Van crash on an unclassified road in Crawley, 15 September 1981
14 m awayRef 198147NA10682
Slight
Austin Metro crash on a C road in Crawley, 24 December 1996
14 m awayRef 199647NA60909
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 22 years
Vehicle 2: Bicycle
Pedal cycle
- Manoeuvre
- Waiting to turn right
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North East
- First point of impact
- Back
- Driver sex
- Female
- Driver age
- 15 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Cyclist
SlightFemale, aged 15, on vehicle 2 (Bicycle)
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 198547NA50461 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Crawley road accident statistics for 1985.