Serious unclassified road crash in Ealing W5 on 20 September 1986 at 00:45 involving a car
A car crashed on an unclassified road in Ealing at 00:45 on Saturday 20 September 1986. There were five casualties: four people were seriously injured and one was slightly injured.
It happened after dark under street lighting in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a crossroads.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 20 Sep 1986
- Saturday, 00:45
- Vehicles
- 1
- Car
- Casualties
- 5
- 4 seriously injured, 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.51879, longitude -0.30287, in the W5 postcode district and within the built-up area of Ealing.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 198601XD00698
- Council area
- Ealing
- Police force
- Metropolitan Police
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
Junction information
- Junction type
- Crossroads
- 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, 14 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 13 November 1985.
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 13 November 1985
14 m awayRef 198501XD00885
Serious
Toyota Corolla crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 8 July 2012
30 m awayRef 201201XD80643
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 21 January 1985
30 m awayRef 198501XD00057
Slight
Honda WW125 crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 27 May 2025
69 m awayRef 2025010577270
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 23 November 1985
71 m awayRef 198501XD00929
Slight
Car crash on an unclassified road in Ealing, 5 April 1989
71 m awayRef 198901XD00229
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- South
- Hit object in carriageway
- Kerb
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Other permanent object
- First point of impact
- Front
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
Casualties (5)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Casualty 2: Passenger
SeriousFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 3: Passenger
SeriousFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 4: Passenger
SeriousFemale, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
- Car passenger
- Rear seat passenger
Casualty 5: Passenger
SeriousFemale, 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 198601XD00698 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Ealing road accident statistics for 1986.