A425 crash in Warwick on 16 December 1986 at 05:40 involving a car

A car crashed on the A425 in Warwick at 05:40 on Tuesday 16 December 1986. The 48-year-old male driver was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting on an icy single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 16 Dec 1986; Tuesday, 05:40
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986238602137
Council area: Warwick
Police force: Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 425
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: Other
Road surface: Frost or ice

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Overtaking moving vehicle on its offside
Travelling from
North West
Travelling to
South East
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Offside
Hit object off carriageway
Entered ditch
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
48 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 48, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)

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 1986238602137 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Warwick road accident statistics for 1986.