A5 crash in Brent on 22 December 1986 at 21:05 involving a car
Two cars were involved in a crash on the A5 in Brent at 21:05 on Monday 22 December 1986. The 18-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 and an 18-year-old female passenger in vehicle 1 were slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 22 Dec 1986
- Monday, 21:05
- Vehicles
- 2
- Car and another
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.55926, longitude -0.21842, in the NW2 postcode district.
Map of where the crash happened in Brent
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601SG00693
- Council area
- Brent
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 5
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- Pedestrian light crossing (pelican or puffin or toucan or similar)
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 1 April 1984.
Slight
Bus crash on the A5 in Brent, 1 April 1984
At the same spotRef 198401QK00226
Serious
Car crash on the A5 in Brent, 24 December 1986
At the same spotRef 198601QD00761
Slight
Car crash on the A5 in Brent, 8 March 1987
At the same spotRef 198701SG00098
Slight
Nissan Juke crash on the A5 in Brent, 24 May 2019
5 m awayRef 2019010183070
Slight
Ford Focus crash on the A5 in Barnet, 28 August 2023
6 m awayRef 2023010462992
Slight
Renault 11 crash on the A5 in Brent, 30 August 1999
10 m awayRef 199901QK00430
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South East
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Offside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 18 years
Vehicle 2: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Parked
- Travelling from
- South East
- Travelling to
- North West
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 18, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 18, 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 198601SG00693 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Brent road accident statistics for 1986.