B4439 crash in Warwick on 28 December 1986 at 19:55 involving a car

Two cars were involved in a crash on the B4439 in Warwick at 19:55 on Sunday 28 December 1986. The 29-year-old male driver of vehicle 1 was slightly injured.

It happened after dark with no street lighting in fine weather on a wet single carriageway with a 60 mph limit, away from any junction.

Severity: Slight
Date: 28 Dec 1986; Sunday, 19:55
Vehicles: 2; Car and another
Casualties: 1; 1 slightly injured

Collision details

Basic information

Reference: 1986238602178
Council area: Warwick
Police force: Warwickshire

Road and location details

First road class: B
First road number: 4439
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: Fine, no high winds
Road surface: Wet or damp

Vehicles involved (2)

Vehicle 1: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Front
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
29 years
Vehicle 2: Car
Manoeuvre
Going ahead
Travelling from
South East
Travelling to
North West
Skidding and overturning
Overturned
Leaving the carriageway
Nearside
Hit object off carriageway
Other permanent object
First point of impact
Back
Driver sex
Male
Driver age
40 years

Casualties (1)

Casualty 1: Driver
Slight
Male, aged 29, 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 1986238602178 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.