Serious A452 crash in Warwick on 22 December 1986 at 21:45 involving a car

A car crashed on the A452 in Warwick at 21:45 on Monday 22 December 1986. A 38-year-old male passenger was seriously 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: 22 Dec 1986; Monday, 21:45
Vehicles: 1; Car
Casualties: 1; 1 seriously injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986238602176
Council area: Warwick
Police force: Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class: A
First road number: 452
Road type: Single carriageway
Speed limit: 30 mph

Junction information

Junction type: Crossroads
Junction control: Auto traffic signal
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

Vehicles involved (1)

Vehicle 1: Car
Towing and articulation
Single trailer
Manoeuvre
Turning right
Travelling from
West
Travelling to
South
First point of impact
Did not impact
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
31 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Passenger
Serious
Male, aged 38, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Car)
Car passenger
Rear 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 1986238602176 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.